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Title: Perdido
Author: Rick Collignon
Narrator: Charles Bice
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-03-11
Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc.
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Perdido is the second book of the Guadalupe Series.
Madewell Brown walked into the village on a hot, dry day in 1946. A solitary black man with one arm longer than the other, he had never found a place for himself. Never, that is, until he had painted his own history on the interior walls of his adobe house in Guadalupe.
Fifty years later, Will Sawyers truck runs out of gas, and as he walks that same long road back into town, he knows its best to keep his eyes on the ground. But he doesnt understand the towns long history of displacement or the difficulty of truly fitting in there, until he hears the story of the dead girl found hanging from Las Manos Bridge.
In Perdido, Collignon returns to the same magical town he first introduced in The Journal of Antonio Montoya. Once again mixing present and past, living and dead, he delivers a forthright and unflinching examination of race, belonging, and identity. With this novel, Collignon shows that a powerful new voice in American fiction has arrived.
Critic Reviews:
"Mr. Collignon has taken readers back to the village he wrote of in his first novel, The Journal of Antonio Montoya. It is a happy return." (The Dallas Morning News)
"Intriguing.... Compelling.... The novel succeeds admirably with its deception of a peaceful way of life abruptly hurled into dangerous havoc by unwanted curiosity.... Collignon's male characters are masterfully drawn, as is his rendering of the stark New Mexico landscape, with its harsh unforgiving climate." (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Members Reviews:
Elegant prose about mysterious people in a fascinating place
The title means lost. A reader puts down the book not quite clear about who or what was lost or how, but feeling the title perfect. Like most good novels Perdido calls up other good, even great literature. Albert Camus' l'Etranger and Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" and OHara's Appointment in Samara echo in the chiseled, poetic prose and through the oblique character development.
Like all good, even great literature, Perdido moves through several levels. There's a single man who's looking for attachment. The modest hero has and loses a place in the ancient community, a traditional adobe house, an image of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a promiscuous girlfriend, and a business partner who is a good friend powerless against culture. He's Anglo among Hispanos. The Hispanos--linked in complex, roiling families--deal with the present only through the rich, confusing past or pasts.
But that's not a description to entice new readers for a novel that deserves to be read. There are other key elements: the naked young woman found hanging from the bridge twenty-years before and a former sheriff's deputy who is dying of cancer, whose secret is aired, and who knows how to get even.
How can we discern America's heart at the close of our century? Perdido tells us to look to an isolated corner of northern New Mexico and think about the 18th century.
Insightful look at NewMexico's competing cultures
A young Anglo wanders into an Hispanic village and decides to stay. After a number of years, he feels like a part of the community. He works with an Hispanic friend, dates a local girl, drinks with and plays softball with the locals.
