Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas

Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas
Author: David Bowles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781942956013
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Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmother's knee to urban legends collected down the years, each of these narratives is brought to stunning visual life by artist Jose Melendez. An appendix classifies the pieces and enumerates motifs."


Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas
Language: en
Pages: 140

Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas

Authors: David Bowles
Categories: Fiction
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