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Sixty Acres and a Barn: A Novel (Portuguese in the Americas Series) (The Portuguese in the Americas Series)
Sixty Acres and a Barn A Novel - Portuguese in the Americas Series - The Portuguese in the Americas Series Author:Alfred Lewis Sixty Acres and a Barn is Alfred Lewis s long-awaited posthumous novel. Completed in the years before the author's death in 1977, this evocative narrative tells the coming-of-age story of Luis Sarmento, an immigrant who finds in America a place of tolerance, prosperity and emotional fulfillment. This slice of immigrant life in California ... more »dairy farming is rendered memorably in prose at once insightful, lyrical, and realistic in its representation of obstacles faced by those who live in insular enclaves between cultures. Sixty Acres moves beyond the idealized homeland of his first novel, Home is and Island (1951) and constitutes a serious contribution to postwar ethnic literature, making Lewis the precursor of acclaimed writers like Katherine Vaz and Frank X. Gaspar.« less