He won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and the Washington Post Book of the Year Award. Like Chad Ocho Cinco and Dustin Hoffman, he went to Santa Monica College. He wrote graceful, fascinating and gorgeously crafted novels, and Edgardo Vega Yunqué (1936–2008) is also the master of the incredibly long and hard to remember novel titles that are stories in themselves.
Example 1:
Rebecca Horowiitz: A Puerto Rican Sex Freak which was originally going to be called:
How That Dirty Rotten Charlie Maisonet Turned Me into a Puerto Rican Sex Freak
Example 2:
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
Example 3:
No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cause Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again: A Symphonic Novel.
Let's give the underappreciated Mr. Yunqué some belated love.
