A Death In the Sánchez Family - Oscar Lewis - 1973 Penguin Modern Classics Paperback

Condition: Acceptable please see the images for more details. Blurb: “A successor to his famous masterpiece TheChildren of Sanchez.For the poor, death is almost as great ahardship as life itself.' So Oscar Lewis explainsthe enormity of a death in the Sanchez family.Not so much an emotional disaster but yetanother social and economic enormity. Thesimplest of all the harsh facts of life becomes acomplexity almost too much to cope with.Aunt Guadalupe, a minor character in TheChildren of Sanchez, dies of cancer, and herdeath becomes a major event for everyonebecause of the things that have to be done.This is a book about life as much as death inthe poorest ghetto in Mexico City. Life as seenby Manuel, Roberto and Consuelo as they tellthe story of their Aunt's last days, and after.stories that reveal all too painfully that, if thepoor have none of the power, they have morethan their share of the experience.The cover, designed by Germano Facetti,shows a detail from Death of the Peasant' byDi