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In the hot Arizona desert of the late 1950s, Mike McGurk comes of age in one big, riotous gush. Trapped pumping gas at a desolate roadstop, he yearns for things he has never known: love, hope, and the soft, white calmness of snow. Mike's world is filled with a menagerie of quirky characters, who cope with the weight of their unfulfilled dreams with bravado, humor, and violence. Mike trades snappy insults with his macho father, Texaco Turk McGurk, a moustachioed amateur boxer and self-proclaimed war hero who is unable to talk about love. Mike lusts after Lily, his seductive, poem-writing cousin. He cowers before and then confronts the vicious Ramses, grandson of Mr. Sneezy, the wisecracking Apache. And he is rescued by his best friend, Bobo, who delivers him into the care of the loving and generous Mama and Papa Garcia. In Search of Snow is an explosive coming-of-age adventure, full of hilarious episodes and still, poignant moments. Like a blue-collar Don Quixote, Mike must blow up his windmills before he can set off to find the things he lacks, especially the snow that will temper the passion he has just set aflame.

 
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Hardback Editions

March 1994 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0060170891Title: In Search of Snow: A Novel
Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
ISBN: 0-06-017089-1 / 978-0-06-017089-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Fiction
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Paperback Editions

November 1999 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0816520151Title: In Search of Snow (Camino del Sol)
Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
ISBN: 0-8165-2015-1 / 978-0-8165-2015-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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April 1995 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0060925981Title: In Search of Snow: A Novel
Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
ISBN: 0-06-092598-1 / 978-0-06-092598-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Perennial
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1994 : Paperback
Title: In Search of Snow
Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Harpercollins
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1980 : Paperback
Title: In Search of Snow: A Novel.
Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
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1995 : Unknown
Title: In Search of Snow
Author(s): Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: HarperPerennial New York 1995
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January 1991 : Unknown
Title: Finding the green stone.
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