The Hector Quesadilla Story (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 1984
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Justice
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
The Work
“The Hector Quesadilla Story” is one of several tales in T. Coraghessan Boyle’s second collection of short fiction, Greasy Lake and Other Stories (1985), in which identity and experience are so closely intertwined that they achieve a magic fusion. The title character is an aging baseball player whose profession has consumed his life. A “saint of the stick” during his teenage years in the Mexican League, he enjoyed a respectable career as a utility infielder with several major-league teams. Hector serves as a last-resort pinch hitter for the Los...
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