Sixty Acres and a Barn: A Novel (Portuguese in the Americas Series) (The Portuguese in the Americas Series)
"Through Lewis, the world of the small immigrant dairy farms and the newly arrived Portuguese who worked them live on the page forever. Memorable are the old, crusty ex-whaler and dairyman Madruga, the town s barber and pimp, Senhor de Castro, the lovely and love-crossed Ana Linhares, and a host of other characters (one thinks of Steinbeck sCannery Row!) in this rich California valley." --Frank X. Gaspar, author ofLeaving Pico"Sixty Acres and a Barn, Alfred Lewis s last novel, offers up an immigrant s version of the Horatio Alger myth, in which an Azorean stranger learns the pragmatic ways of a new country, a bit of essential knowledge that, melding with his elemental Azorean traits, enables him to become a prosperous and productive citizen of California. In this well-plotted western, agrarian novel, the reader discovers as well how Alfredo Luís evolved into Alfred Lewis without ever ceasing to be, in the best of senses, a Portuguese immigrant from the Azores." --George Monteiro, author ofThe Presence of Pessoa