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Three poetic journeys, the first into the members of a semi-pro Mexican baseball team, the second intoa mariage beginning and ending, the third into an 1880s Nevada mining camp.
span lang="ES"> /span>span lang="EN-US">The poetic sections of i>A Perfect Throw /i>web three separate confrontations with love, aspiration and destiny into a vivid examination of human struggles, achievements and compromise. For the members of a Mexican baseball team the game they play is the fiber that unifies their disparate and often conflictive personalities. The narrator of a marriage that has ended faces a new life carrying the responsibilities of the old and the feelings of love, conflict and alienation that they engender. A | |  | | Hidden Dangers
Ruptures in the relationships between the United States and Mexico put the latter country on the brink of disaster. Examined are the realities of immigration, commerce in drugs, corruption, the environement and popular protests.
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p class="MsoNormal">span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Former i>New York Times/i> bureau chief Alan Riding calls Mexico “our distant neighbor.” Distant or not, the neighbor is undergoing economic and political changes that “lie like landmines ready to explode beneath Uncle Sam’s footsteps,” comments a noted Mexican journalist. These landmines include:/span>
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The War in Vietnam bursts forth poetically s participants describe their fears, hopes and retaliations, as do small town Americans reveal the pressures and joys of life at home and a retiree looks at his life, his past, his friends..
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A plunge into the heart of Mexico and its loves, fiestas, conflicts and a baseball team transformed from ragtag hasbeens into a funloving, storytelling, spitball throwing, winning collection of diversely loveable characters led by a teenaged refugee and his harem of enthusiastic fans.
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who has been flown to a maximum security prison along with other innocent victims of the militarized purge.
span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">“They’re attacking, killing!” George Bynum hears his novia’s voice before the cell phone connection goes dead. He rushes out to try to find her. Blinded by teargas he trips he has to be helped to safety by Claudia, a daring dropout who claims to be tougher than she really is. George and Claudi are fictional characters but the events in which they’ve become embroiled are based on the actual political and social upheavals that reverberated through Oaxaca, Mexico./span>
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