Faith in Carlos Gomez: A Memoir of Salsa, Sex, and Salvation
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805080163 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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" Samantha Dunn is a brilliant writer. Valuable life lessons and lots of humor Sequel to "Not by Accident." Samantha Dunn is a brilliant writer. Valuable life lessons and lots of humorsome sadness that is overwhelming at times but important to live through. I highly recommend Ms. Dunn's books.. "Sam does it again!" according to William L. Bush. What a joy to read Sam Dunn's wonderful memoir FAITH IN CARLOS GOMEZ!!! The book arrived from Amazon on Saturday and by Saturday evening, my wife had devoured it cover to cover and by the end of the day on Monday, I'd enjoyed every twist, twirl and turn of Sam's adventure. I couldn't put it down!I really enjoyed the clever way she wove so many elements from her life into the storyline of becoming totally caught up in the Latin culture and salsa dance scene. Great fun to read!Needless to say, I love the way Sam Dunn writes. I've read her other two books, FAILING PARIS and NOT BY ACCIDENT and after reading this one, . "A passionate invitation to the world of "the dance"" according to Bookreporter. Samantha Dunn is addicting. The voluptuous, red-headed journalist --- labeled a combination of Sophia Loren and Dale Evans --- from the sagebrush of the Southwest writes what may be described as the "country" alternative to Candace Bushnell's SEX AND THE CITY. Yet there is a rich, genuine leather to Dunn's narrative that propels and inspires. Dunn has been alluring from her first book, the novel FAILING PARIS, to her first memoir, NOT BY ACCIDENT, when she hilariously and bravely chronicled her recovery from a near-fatal horse-riding accident.This third offering, FAITH IN CARLOS GOMEZ, takes up where NOT BY ACCIDEN
Her introduction to salsa dancing happens by chance in a kitchen during a dinner with a blacksmith from South America. But then the unpredictable happens: from the first steps, something about the movement and the exotic, sliding music takes hold of her.From that point on, Dunn throws herself into the salsa culture. She soaks up the Spanish language-an easy feat in her home city of Los Angeles-and begins a peculiar relationship with her dance instructor, a local salsa celebrity. To impress this handsome man on their next date, she decides to take a dance lesson. And as Latino culture becomes ever more influential in California, she is recognizing the changes in her own life mirrored in the city she thought she knew.Faith in Carlos Gomez is a story of a woman discovering love-for salsa dancing, for music, for a culture, and for Carlos Gomez-and determined to learn whatever steps she'll need to keep up.. She is hearing tropical rhythms in her he
But this memoir is not for devotees: they already know the nightly routine of following the salsa trail from club to club, the complexities of the rhythm and movement, the subtleties of leading and following—all a revelation to Dunn. Yet this fairly typical tale of the search for love and happiness has beautiful patches of writing (Dunn's novel Failing Paris was a PEN/West award finalist), especially when she captures the magic of, and the longing for, the dance ("I watch serious salseras, and I ache to know that kind of movement within my own body," as if it might "unearth something long buried") o