The Hector Quesadilla Story (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy, Sports fiction
- Subjects: Justice, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, 1980’s, California, West, U.S., Food, Ambition, Heroes or heroism, Baseball, Aging
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
The hero of the slightly surreal “The Hector Quesadilla Story” is a typical Boyle antihero. Although the story is in the tradition of mythic tales of Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, Hector Quesadilla, in his fifties, is no Sultan of Swat—he has shin splints, corns, and hemorrhoids. He is not only old, but he is also fat, a man who eats as though there were some creature inside him made of nothing but jaws and guts. He has not played regularly in ten years, but he wants one more season; he refuses to admit that he is old. In baseball, Hector believes, the grass is always green and the...
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