Centaur of the North

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Arte Publico Press, Jun 1, 1996 - Fiction - 128 pages
Finally, the long-awaited literary debut from the finalist in the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Short Fiction. Centaur of the North marks the introduction of a gifted storyteller, a lyric and transcendent voice. In nine resonant stories, Wendell Mayo presents us with characters who long to remove the shadows occluding elusive, almost magical mothers and to explore prescribed, yet not fully understood, destinies. His stories reverberate with a soul-aching need to fit the puzzle pieces together. Family histories, family mysteries emerging from legends Wendell Mayo reveals the power of family storytelling, both real and imagined.
 

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The Stone Kitchen
11
Conquistador
25
El Centauro del Norte
40
The Bankers Son
55
La Villa La Villa Miseria
69
Soledad
79
New Moon
96
El Ojo
104
Corpus
121
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About the author (1996)

WENDELL MAYO is the author of Centaur to the North (Arte PÏblico Press, 1996), which the New York Times Book Review calls ña powerful first collection.î In 1975, Mayo completed his BS in Chemical Engineering at Ohio State University and worked as an engineer. In 1980, he began to pursue his life-long ambition to write and finished his BA in Journalism at the University of Toledo. He published his first two short stories in 1984. In 1988, he completed his doctoral studies. MayoÍs works have been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Exquisite Corpse, The Chattahoochee Review and The Yale Review. His other published works include In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press, 1998) and B. Horror: And Other Stories (Livingston Press, 1999). In 1996, Mayo was awarded the Premio Aztlàn, a national literary honor that was created by author Rudolfo Anaya (Bless Me Ultima) for literary excellence in works by Chicano writers that explore aspects of Chicano culture and experience. Mayo is the former Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He joined the creative writing faculty of Bowling Green State University in the fall of 1996.

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