List of islands of Mexico - Wikipedia
Islas Twins aka Islas Los Gemelitos 28°57′20.10″N 113°28′43.70″W / 28.9555833°N 113.4788056°W / 28.9555833; -113.4788056 Gulf of Mexico / Caribbean
The Lacuna Setting - BookRags.com
Isla Pixol is an island in Mexico where Harry moved with his mother when she first left her father to be with Enrique, a Mexican businessman. Although relatively little of the action takes place on Isla Pixol it is a significant location in the novel because of the presence of the lacuna.
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - Goodreads
2009年11月3日 · Ambitious historical fiction that begins on an island off the coast of Mexico in 1929. Protagonist Harrison Shepherd is thirteen years old lives with his Mexican mother, Salome, and her paramour, Enrique. Salome left Harrison’s American father in Virginia and traveled to Mexico to live a lavish lifestyle with Enrique.
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
Part 1: Mexico, 1929 – 1931. Isla Pixol, Mexico, 1929. In the beginning were the howlers. They always commenced their bellowing in the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten. It would start with just one: his forced, rhythmic groaning, like a saw blade.
Summary and Reviews of The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2009年11月1日 · Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City—Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey.
Barbara Kingsolver’s Artists and Idols - The New York Times
2009年11月5日 · But in 1940, when Trotsky is assassinated, Shepherd leaves Mexico, spooked by the virulent press that denounces his employers and their murdered ward “like the howlers on Isla Pixol.”
The Lacuna: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the …
2009年10月23日 · From Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of Homeland, The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy.
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The Lacuna
Isla Pixol, Mexico, 1929 In the beginning were the howlers. They always commenced their bellowing in the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten. It would start with just one: his forced, rhythmic groan-ing, like a saw blade. That aroused others near him, nudging them to bawl along with his monstrous tune.
The Lacuna By Barbara Kingsolver - California Literary Review
2024年1月3日 · She took the child to Mexico with her, expecting to marry her lover, a Mexican oilman. Though she and her son were in residence at the oilman’s hacienda on Isla Pixol, a small island off the coast of Mexico, the businessman had other ideas than marrying Salomé.
The Lacuna - Part 1 Summary & Analysis - BookRags.com
Part 1 covers the years 1929-1931 and takes place in Mexico. It begins with a section titled “Isla Pixol, Mexico, 1929,” which is written in the style of narrative fiction, unlike the diary entries that follow for much of the rest of the novel.