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    Valleyesque (eBook, ePUB)
    One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2022"These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A. Flores's deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives." -Kelly Link, author of Get in TroublePsychedelic, dazzling stories set in the cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland, from an iconoclastic storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig.No one captures the border-its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption-like Fernando A. Flores, whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an entire town and rewrite its history.The stories in Valleyesque dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous, often hilarious flair. A dying Frédéric Chopin stumbles through Ciudad Juárez in the aftermath of his mother's death, attempting to recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed Emiliano Zapata T-shirt. A woman is engulfed by a used-clothing warehouse with a life of its own, and a grieving mother breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence. In two separate stories, queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale, Flores pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he starts a music career in Texas.Swinging between satire and surrealism, grief and joy, Valleyesque is a boundary- and border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice. With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, a cult classic, Flores brings his vision of the border to life-and beyond.
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    Valleyesque: Stories
    One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 "These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored by Fernando A. Flores's deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives." -Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble Psychedelic, dazzling stories set in the cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland, from an iconoclastic storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig. No one captures the border-its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption-like Fernando A. Flores, whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an entire town and rewrite its history. The stories in Valleyesque dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous, often hilarious flair. A dying Frédéric Chopin stumbles through Ciudad Juárez in the aftermath of his mother's death, attempting to recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed Emiliano Zapata T-shirt. A woman is engulfed by a used-clothing warehouse with a life of its own, and a grieving mother breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence. In two separate stories, queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale, Flores pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he starts a music career in Texas. Swinging between satire and surrealism, grief and joy, Valleyesque is a boundary- and border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice. With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel, Tears of the Trufflepig, a cult classic, Flores brings his vision of the border to life-and beyond.
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    Land of Golden Dreams CD
    MEET THE COMPOSER Composer-Violinist-Musical Archaeologist Elisabeth Waldo has created a 60 minute Score of mystical beauty. Her reputation as an authority on New World Music has been of long standing. Early years were spent in rural Eastern Washington on a family Ranch near the Yakima Indian Reservation. From the time she was five years old, Elisabeth and her violin were inseparable. Her teachers were Immigrants from European Countries who had settled in rural communities and were a real inspiration to this tiny musician. A Scholarship to attend the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, upon the recommendation of Jascha Heifetz, was followed by symphony experiences in Youth Orchestras under Maestro Leopold Stokowski. While performing in Mexico City over Radio X.E.W. (Cadena Azul) the great Muralist Diego Rivera heard her music and as a result, changed the direction of her musical career. Diego believed that Ms. Waldo's highest calling would be to create new Idioms based on the rich Cultural Heritage of great Indian Civilizations of the past, and to develop new scores for the future. STORY of the SCORE for 'LAND OF GOLDEN DREAMS' From my pastoral setting at historic Rancho Cordillera del Norte, at last I have completed a 60 minute work that has given me the opportunity to express my passion for the Mythic, Historic and Cultural Roots of this Golden Land. From the beginning, I turned to the story of legendary Queen Califia who in 1521 beckoned the Old World to explore the New. I have often crossed borders, invoked impressionism, encouraged improvisation, embraced traditions and 'primitivismo'. Fusion of these elements all contribute to a new Genre for California musical styles. I am dedicating my 'Land of Golden Dreams' C.D. and all performances of this material to my late husband, Dr. Carl S. Dentzel, an unending resource for historic detail and encouragement during my process of interpreting California as the World.
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    Frida
    The tumultuous life of famed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is vividly brought to the screen by director Julie Taymor and producer/star Salma Hayek. Kahlo's story is traced, from the debilitating trolley accident she suffered as a teen and her stormy marriage to muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina) to the duo's extramarital flings and Kahlo's search for her own identity in her art. Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton also star. 124 min. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.
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    Frida
    The tumultuous life of famed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is vividly brought to the screen by director Julie Taymor and producer/star Salma Hayek. Kahlo's story is traced, from the debilitating trolley accident she suffered as a teen and her stormy marriage to muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina) to the duo's extramarital flings and Kahlo's search for her own identity in her art. Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton also star. 124 min. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.
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