HUELGA!

by David Chandler ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1970

Wait for Lefty long enough and he'll show up--in the '70's--and this is another in a line of second string proletarian reversions, dealing here with California's Mexican-American agricultural workers who could rightfully complain of literary as well as labor exploitation. There's the home-grown boy, the token Mexican in Eastern companies, who returns to the fields to organize; the misfit jailbait who also returns to be cleansed by the cause; loyal women, both Mexican and Anglo; rapacious growers and one honest employer who is of course half-Jewish; assorted hard-bitten Mexican-hating Anglo types; an idealistic lawyer; and a chorus of the nobly underpaid. The leader and his group are going full steam ahead in spite of arrests, humiliations and crack-downs. But the leader is assassinated, and the misfit in his cell witnesses the beautiful sight of the faithful closing ranks and pushing on. At one point a camp follower says to the misfit: ""Inside you I feel great anger, great hurt, great power. . . . "" And a greater boredom.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION