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Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya.

Summary:

Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold of manhood. Always, Ultima watches over him. She graces him with the courage to face childhood bigotry, diabolical possession, the moral collapse of his brother, and too many violent deaths. Under her wise guidance, Tony will probe the family ties that bind him, and he will find in himself the magical secrets of the pagan past—a mythic legacy equally as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in which he has been schooled. At each turn in his life there is Ultima who will nurture the birth of his soul.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781439501382
  • ISBN: 1439501386
  • ISBN: 9780446600255
  • ISBN: 0446600253
  • Physical Description: xiii, 271 pages ; 18 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Pub., 1994, ©1972.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes a Reader's Group Guide (Q and A with Rudolfo Anaya), and Questions for Discussion.
Awards Note:
Winner of the Premio Quinto Sol, national Chicano literary award.
Subject: Mexican American children > New Mexico > Fiction.
Mexican Americans > New Mexico > Fiction.
Healers > New Mexico > Fiction.
Grandparent and child > Fiction.
Mexican Americans > Family relationships > Fiction.
Llanos > Fiction.
Genre: Classic
Historical Fiction
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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500 . ‡aIncludes a Reader's Group Guide (Q and A with Rudolfo Anaya), and Questions for Discussion.
520 . ‡aAntonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold of manhood. Always, Ultima watches over him. She graces him with the courage to face childhood bigotry, diabolical possession, the moral collapse of his brother, and too many violent deaths. Under her wise guidance, Tony will probe the family ties that bind him, and he will find in himself the magical secrets of the pagan past—a mythic legacy equally as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in which he has been schooled. At each turn in his life there is Ultima who will nurture the birth of his soul.
586 . ‡aWinner of the Premio Quinto Sol, national Chicano literary award.
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655 7. ‡aClassic
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