Country of the Bad Wolfes

 

 

A Novel

BY JAMES CARLOS BLAKE

 

CINCO PUNTOS PRESS
EL PASO, TEXAS

 

 

Country of the Bad Wolfes :A Novel.
Copyright © 2012 by James Carlos Blake.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in case of brief quotations for reviews. For information, write Cinco Puntos Press, 701 Texas,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Blake, James Carlos.
Country of the bad Wolfes : a novel / by James Carlos Blake. --1st ed.

     p. cm.

   Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935955-03-0

   e-book ISBN: 978-1-935955-12-2

1. Families—Fiction. 2. Twins—Fiction. 3. United States—History—19th
century—Fiction. 4. Mexico—History—19th century—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.L3483C68 2012
813'.54—dc23

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IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER,

CARLOS SEBASTIÁN BLAKE

(1911-2002)

Other Works by James Carlos Blake

Prologue

Part One

   Mary Margaret and the Gemini

   The Turncoat's Trials

   Dartmouth Days

   Sister of Fortuna

   Uncle Redbeard

   Villa Rica De La Vera Cruz

   Reckonings

Part Two

   Buenaventura

   Ensenada De Isabel

   Seasons of Mars and Venus and Mors

   The Second Twins

   The Bastards

   Account to the Courtesan

   Discoveries

Part Three

   In Mexico City

   Turns of Fortune

   Two Weddings

   Gloria Little

   El Presidente

Part Four

   Tales from the Cove

   Los Cuates Blancos

   Other Crocodiles, Other Sharks

   Bruno and Felicia

   Black Horse

   Distances

   The Espinosa Legacy

   25 July 1886

   The Harrowing

   Creeds of Fraternity

   The Power His Sister Married

   Or Even Ever Grow Old

   Nooses

   Noticias De Patria Chica

   Pleasures of A Later Hour

   Under The Porfiriato

   Tampico

Part Five

   His Mother Said

   A Country All Its Own

   Roots

   Correspondence

   Trespassers

   Mister Wells

   In The Getting

   Culmination