LEADER 03473nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910954411703321 005 20251117003500.0 010 $a0-8040-4016-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713347 035 $a(OCoLC)191934791 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10091942 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431906 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11965436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431906 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493311 035 $a(PQKB)11474874 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3026835 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3026835 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10091942 035 $a(BIP)11343234 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713347 100 $a20050316d2005 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe confessions of Senora Francesca Navarro and other stories /$fNatalie L.M. Petesch 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cSwallow Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (167 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8040-1076-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aTimoteo, the derrelicto -- The hand of St. Teresa -- Federico at the clinic -- The confessions of Sen?ora Francesca Navarro -- This passionate sun. 330 $a"Memory, of course, is sometimes like a bucking horse, sometimes a runaway one, and one must control the reins until finally it stops, snorting with exhausted relief," writes Natalie L. M. Petesch in her haunting new collection, The Confessions of Senora Francesa Navarro and Other Stories. Petesch immerses readers in the lives of people caught up in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, which left 500,000 dead. She captures the hand-to-mouth existence on the streets of Madrid of two war orphans, whose friendship redeems their shattered world; an old soldier's memories of a fallen militiawoman; the dilemma of Franco's laundress as she seeks to duplicate a stolen religious icon she finds in his home; and a man struggling to find his bride among 14,000 Nationalist refugees waiting, after the fall of Madrid, for ships to evacuate them before Franco's Fascists arrive to kill them.In the title novella, told by an elderly woman to her granddaughter, families of officers endure hunger, filth, and danger in an underground fortress. Petesch conveys the humiliating details of war through the sensibility of a cultured woman who recalls only too vividly latrines of laundry tubs, the smell of unwashed humans, and the stench of death.Brilliant in its imaginative power, and heartbreaking in its access to the bottomless well of human tears, The Confessions of Senora Francesa Navarro and Other Stories is the work of a mature artist able to convey a particular world so vividly that we know these people as our own.Natalie L.M.Petesch has published ten previous books of fiction, including the Swallow Press titles Duncan's Colony, Flowering Mimosa, Justina of Andalusia, and The Immigrant Train. She lives inPittsburgh. 606 $aAmerican literature 607 $aSpain$xHistory$yCivil War, 1936-1939$vFiction 615 0$aAmerican literature. 676 $a813/.54 700 $aPetesch$b Natalie L. M.$f1924-$01865545 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954411703321 996 $aThe confessions of Senora Francesca Navarro and other stories$94472665 997 $aUNINA