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Title: A Santo in the Image of Cristóbal García

Author: Rick Collignon

Narrator: Charles Bice

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-11

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A Santo is the third book of the Guadalupe Series. The gentle-hearted Flavio Montoya returns, now as the aged scion of his family, still tending his sister Ramonas fields and wondering how all of his family could have died before him. When the mountains surrounding Guadalupe erupt in flames, the history of the village seems to be set loose in the smoke. The dead arrive and the silent speak. When Flavio is accused of starting the fire that quickly threatens to consume the village, the disaster becomes one more mystery that he must fold into his own memory, though he cannot quite understand any of it. A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia is a beautiful, funny, even epic tale of how all history is finally personal.

Critic Reviews:

His rich story, unfolding and refolding, flickers almost palpably between shadow and light. (The Santa Fe New Mexican)

Moving...evocative. (Booklist)

Dreamlike and melancholy...a worthy read. (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Deeply moving, full of real characters I recognize!

Northern New Mexico is unique in all the world. It has taken me more than 20 years living there to just begin to fathom the depth of its "terroir". Mr. Collignon has created magic in the pages of this book that lays bare the soul of memory and targets all small, close families and all small, close communities. Secrets become revealed fact as facts fade to secrets. Truth is an ethereal, mercurial concept in the Northern Counties' foothills.

I was struck throughout, by the lyrical style of the prose which reflects the soft cadence of local speech perfectly. I was reminded of Rudolpho Anaya's earliest work. This book belongs in the library of New Mexican literature along with Anaya, John Nichols and Tony Hillerman. For anyone who has spent time North of La Bajada, this is a must read, whether you have chosen to venture here, or were born part of the clay-rich soil.

I look forward to continuing my excursion into this author's other work.

Brilliant....

Thanks for the ride!

This was the forth book I read by Rick Collignon.

Each one took me on a terrific journey.

Each story masterfully woven.

Fantastic!

Thanks R.C.

Unique novel about northern New Mexico

An entertaining tale about a northern New Mexico village and the characters who inhabit the place, a work which includes both the real history of the area and some of the mystery which surrounds the landscape.

haunting, calming yet thought provoking

i liked this novel as it is in the same family as marquez and allende. it's beautifully written and casts a lovely slow dark shadow, if you are in this sort of mood. i love the inherent sadness but warmth between and for the characters. with aging parents, it seems revealing how older people review in a non-sequential matter, their relationships, choices, things that they thought mattered with didn't and other subjects. the ghostly spector of good and evil permeates many sections, and implies that human relations carry weighty and far-reaching consequences. while bad behaviour is a given within this community, by individuals who are family members and/or neighbors, going too far is tied up within the notions of greed, magic, forces beyond one's control, and to an extent, race. essentially, i really loved the spell this novel cast and am looking forward to reading the others in the trilogy.