num_pages: 272
description: When he first started writing, Dagoberto Gilb was struggling to survive as a journeyman high-rise carpenter. Years later, he has won widespread acclaim as a crucial and compelling voice in contemporary American letters. Tackling everything from cockfighting to Cormac McCarthy, Gritos collects Gilb's essays and his popular commentaries for NPR's Fresh Air, offering a startling portrait of an artist-and a Mexican-American- working to find his place in both the cloistered literary world and the world at large, to say nothing of his strange and beloved borderland of Texas.
language: English
title: Gritos: Essays
titlecomplete: Gritos: Essays
genres: Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 101
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Grove Press