The scoundrel and the optimist / Maceo Montoya.

Filastro is a bully, used to beating up his wife, six of their seven children, and the riffraff of his village in Mexico. But he can't bring himself to harm his youngest son, Edmund, whose limbs resemble sticks and whose head seems too big for his puny body. The older children, who loathe their fath...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Montoya, Maceo
Language:	English
Published:	Tempe, Ariz. : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:	Fathers and sons > Fiction. Fathers and sons. Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. Bildungsromans. Fiction.
Genre:	Fiction. Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. Bildungsromans.
Physical Description:	266 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book