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Macho! | 
 enlarge | Author: Victor Villasenor
Publisher: Delta
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 166510
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0385311184
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385311182
ASIN: 0385311184
Publication Date: February 10, 1997
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Product Description
From Victor Villase-or, author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Rain of Gold, comes the stunning story of a young man's coming of age--a novel that captures the cadences and color, passion and pride of the Mexican-American experience.
Roberto Garcia was only seventeen. But he already had big dreams of freedom, respect, money, familia. With ambition to burn and a passion to prove his manhood, Roberto took the dangerous journey north, crossing the Mexican border to pick fruit in the golden fields of California. There, a good man could make more money in a week than in a whole year in the mountains of Michoacan. Nothing could have prepared Roberto for the jammed boxcars and bolted trucks carrying migrants through burning deserts to fields of dreams. But he was determined to become a norte-o, coming home with a family to save and a score to settle, no longer a boy, but a man.
At once raw and powerful, poetic and heartbreaking, Macho! brings to life the brutality of migrant labor, Cesar Chavez's efforts to unionize the workers, and a vivid portrayal of the immigrant experience as seen through the eyes of a young man who saw it all.
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 Great incorporation of Cesar Chavez into a quality narrative October 30, 2007
I read this book due to the great enjoyment provided me by the 'The Rain of Gold'. This book is much shorter and I anticipated that it would be difficult to provide the deep character development or interaction but I was wrong. Villasenor does an excellent job detailing the travils of Roberto and really showing the growth and inner turmoil being experienced by the heroine.
I also believe the analogy of male vs. female and U.S. vs. Mexico are very interesting. Roberto makes decisions that are attributed to the women he respects more than to the country he feels beholden to but the reader can see the contributions of both.
Mexico's machismo characterization is reknown and probably overplayed but as a Mexican-American growing up in the Southwestern USA I can attest that it is a very difficult dynamic to confront (or ignore).
Last item: I really enjoyed the excerpts of the Cesar Chavez dilemma from the immigrants perspective. Roberto is caught in the middle of being restricted from work by the strikers but appreciates the long term vision that Cesar Chavez had for all workers throughout the world.
Great book!!
 Macho December 7, 2006
In the book Macho by Victor Villasenor, Roberto Garcia goes to the United States to make his and his family's lives better. We think that the book was pretty well written because the author used foreign language in the book. He used Spanish and English. He also used good description and explained the conflict that the main character had. Sometimes Victor repeated the same thing and that made the book sort of boring. If you really want to know more, read the book and find out. We really recommend this book because it gives good information on the traditions of Mexico and very good ideas of the challenges the main character passed through.
 Christian C, Bryan C, Juan G, Salvador V December 6, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book Macho talks about a boy named Roberto going to the United States in search for a better life for him and his family. The beginning of the book was boring because it spends most of the time describing the setting. The book was repeating itself for the most part which made you lose interest. However, by the end of the book it got more interesting there was more action that just has you wanting to know what is going to happen next. We recommend this book for anyone wanting to know about what immigrants have to go through to support their family.
MACHO! December 6, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Our Group has decided to give Macho! four stars because Victor Villasenor was teaching us how people made their American dream. Also Victor Villasenor made some good characters that seem that if they were real people. Victor Villasenor was talking about the people crossing the border and how some people worked on the fields to support their families back in Mexico. We did not give this book five stars because there was a lot of violence and killing. Even thought this book had a lot of violence and killing we recommend this book to kids over 12 years old to read this book.
Read at your own risk! May 24, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Are you tired of reading the same ordinary boring books! Well once you read Macho you will find out that it is not an ordinary book by reading the first few chapters! The book Macho is about a boy named Roberto Garcia who leaves his family behind to move to United States for a better life for himself and try to provide for his family. He moves to California to work at a vegetable field. He is not making a lot of money. But is still sending money back to his family in Mexico but stopped because his father is an alcoholic. The book is written with some Spanish words, so if you do not know Spanish you might have trouble understanding the book. I felt bad for Roberto because he had a rough life supporting his family and himself. The reason why this book is called Macho is because Roberto felt like a man or "Macho" supporting his family. I personally liked this book because I can relate to Roberto. I have a friend who is working and he is 15 and provides for his family, just like Roberto.
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