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Guitars and Adobes and the Uncollected Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez
Fray Angélico Chávez [born Manuel Ezequiel Chávez] (1910-1996) was one of New Mexico’s foremost writers and intellectuals, with hundreds of poems, articles, plays, stories, and twenty-four books to his credit. In 1924, at the age of fourteen, he traveled from northern New Mexico to Ohio to study and train in the Franciscan Order, becoming the first native New Mexican to be ordained a Franciscan priest.
This rare collection of writings combines Chávez’s early fiction with his little-known novel Guitars and Adobes, originally published in 1931-32 in serialized form. The novel presents an alternative Hispano vision to Willa Cather’s famed Death Comes for the Archbishop.
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