ISBN: 0-88739-465-5
312 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 06/2003
Paperback Original
Price: $14.95
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I, Joaquin
Melvin Litton
I, Joaquin is a fresh account of the legendary outlaw Joaquin Murrieta and his fight for justice during the California gold rush. Not quite twenty-one at the time of his death, Joaquin left a legacy and mystic force that has carried on for generations. Before Jesse James or Billy the Kid, before Villa, Zapata or Che Guevara, there was Joaquin - lover, bandit, revolutionary - not only an Hispanic hero, but an American hero, a character born of a fervent mix of people and culture. I, Joaquin is at once a breath and an echo of the legend, a soul's jornada, Joaquin's reflections on his life and death, his love and vengeance, and the lone purgatory from which he speaks.
Review: Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America -- "In a voice as plain as an old man's memory and with a young man's brimming heart, Melvin Litton takes us to that landscape of the soul where history and myth meet."
Bio: MELVIN LITTON works as a carpenter in Kansas and plays guitar and sings with the Border Band. His first novel, Geminga, was published in 1993. His fiction has also appeared in First Intensity, a literary journal.
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