Erin Finnegan

Luchador (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Each week, Gabriel Romeros drive to Sunday Mass takes him past "e;El Ángel,"e; the golden statue at the heart of Mexico City that haunts his memories and inspires his future. Spurred by the memory of his parents, Gabriel is drawn to the secretive world of lucha libre, where wrestling, performance art, and big business collide.Under the conflicting mentorships of one of lucha libres famed gay exotico wrestlers and an ambitious young luchador whose star is on the rise, Gabriel must choose between traditions that ground him but may limit his future, and the lure of sex and success that may compromise his independence. Surrounded by a makeshift family of wrestlers, Gabriel charts a course to balance ambition, sexuality, and loyalty to find the future that may have been destined for him since childhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781941530986
• Artikelnr.: 55362758

Autorenporträt

Erin Finnegan is a former journalist and a winemaker who lives in the foothills outside Los Angeles. A lifelong sports fan and occasional sports writer, she has had to dive out of the way of flying luchadores at matches in both the U.S. and Mexico. Her first novel, Sotto Voce, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and a Foreword iNDiES Silver Book of the Year Award.