The gates
By: Chuck Wachtel.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Americans -- Nicaragua -- Fiction; Italian Americans -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Teachers -- Fiction; Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction; Nicaragua -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Primo Thomas, a teacher of English to new immigrants, faces the second half of his life. His parents, a black physician and his Italian-American wife, both from Harlem, died when he was a young man; his marriage has recently ended; hardly anything remains of the Lower East Side neighborhood in which he came of age. He has always drawn a sense of himself from the people gathered around him - now the mirror of the changing, hallucinatory world refuses to reflect his image back.