The Edge of the Storm : : A Novel / / Agustín Yáñez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Yáñez, Agustín,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brinton, Ethel.; Prieto, Julio.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; OVERTURE --; 1. THAT NIGHT --; 2. RETREAT HOUSE --; 3. MARTA AND MARÍA --; 4. HOLY DAYS --; 5. OLD LUCAS MACÍAS --; 6. EASTER --; 7. THE NORTHERNERS --; 8. MARBLES --; 9. VICTORIA AND GABRIEL --; 10. HOLY CROSS DAY --; 11. THE CHAPLAIN --; 12. ASCENSION --; 13. THE DOWNFALL OF DAMIÁN LIMÓN --; 14. STUDENTS AND ABSENT ONES --; 15. PEDRITO --; 16. HALLEY'S COMET
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292753617; 9783110745351
• DOI: 10.7560/732216
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Agustín Yáñez.

This tale of a repressive priest and his small Mexican village during the eighteen months preceding the Revolution of 1910 is a great novel, one that exposes the struggle between human desire and paralyzing fear—fear of humanity, fear of nature, fear of the wrath of God. Agustín Yáñez probes the actions of people caught in life’s currents, enthralling his readers with mounting dramatic tension as he shows that no power can forge saints from the human masses, that any attempt to do so, in fact, often has exactly the opposite result. Yáñez brings to his work a deep understanding of people—his people—and he illuminates a great truth—that no one, anywhere, seems very strange when we understand the environment that has produced him or her.