Edge of the Storm

Title: Edge of the Storm
Author: Agustín Yáñez
E: 1700580
ISBN: 0292701314
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1963
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 342
Section: Fiction | World Literature | Mexico
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:

This tale of a repressive priest and his small Mexican village during the eighteen months preceding the Revolution of 1910 is a great novel, one that exposes the struggle between human desire and paralyzing fear--fear of humanity, fear of nature, fear of the wrath of God. Agustín Yáñez probes the actions of people caught in life's currents, enthralling his readers with mounting dramatic tension as he shows that no power can forge saints from the human masses, that any attempt to do so, in fact, often has exactly the opposite result.

Yáñez brings to his work a deep understanding of people--his people--and he illuminates a great truth--that no one, anywhere, seems very strange when we understand the environment that has produced him or her.