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Fiction, nonfiction and
more by award-winning writer C.M.
Mayo.
Metaphysical
Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution:
Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual
By
C.M. Mayo
Kindle
(price varies) ISBN 978-0-9852781-0-6
Paperback
$14.95 ISBN-10:0-9887970-0-3
Librarians:
This book is available from Ingram
WINNER
OF THE INDIE EXCELLENT AWARD FOR HISTORY
 "In my fifteen years of researching
the life of President Francisco I. Madero, I have never read
a more complete book as the one just written by C.M. Mayo. It
will simply surprise any reader. The research is impeccable and
the narrative well-rounded."
Manuel
Guerra de Luna,
author of Los Madero: La Saga Liberal
"Metaphysical Odyssey
into the Mexican Revolution paints a complex picture of a
curious crossroads in history, where the rise and fall of a regime
coincided with a spiritual and social awakening with the potential
to rewrite a country's future. Kudos to Mayo for introducing
us to both the man and his message."
San Francisco
Book Review
"Mayo... provides
not only an English translation of Madero's Spiritist Manual,
but also a lively intoduction... The author argues effectively
that Madero's manual is essential to understanding his revolutionary
zeal."
Kirkus
Reviews
 "In this delightfully engaging book,
C.M. Mayo brings to vivid light an aspect of Mexican history
astonishingly neglected by most historians: the Spiritist beliefs
and practices of Francisco Madero, instigator and first leader
of the world-historical event that was the Mexican Revolution
of 1910. Fruit of considerable research, this volume includes
the first translation into English of Madero's Spiritist Manual,
itself an invaluable contribution to the historical record."
José Skinner, University of Texas-Pan
American
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New in
Kindle!
C.M. Mayo's longform essay on the Mexican literary landscape
and the power of the book:
"Dispatch
from the Sister Republic or,
Papelito Habla"
> Read
excerpts now
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The
Building of Quality By
C.M. Mayo
The novelesque short story priginally
published in the Kenyon Review. By the author of the novel
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and Sky Over
El Nido, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award.
Or, download the beautifully designed and formatted PDF e-book
for $.99:
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From
Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion
By C.M.
Mayo
 A nonfiction novela about
a fairytale: a visit to the Maximilian von Habsburg's Italian
castle
Originally published in the Massachusetts
Review; winner of the Washington Writing Prize for Best Personal
Essay. By the author of the novel The Last Prince of
the Mexican Empire and Sky Over El Nido, winner of
the Flannery O'Connor Award.
Download the beautifully designed and formatted PDF e-book for
$1.99:
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El
último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano
Por C.M.
Mayo (traducción de Agustín Cadena)
Novela basada en la increíble
y verdadera historia del desconocido nieto de Agustín
de Iturbide, a quien Maximiliano de Habsburgo "adoptó,"
convirtiéndolo en el presunto heredero de su imperio.
Desde el momento de publicación en México, se ha
considerado como novela clásica sobre el breve y convulsivo
reinado del emperador Maximiliano y su corte. La prosa de C.M.
Mayo conduce al lector a sentir el México de esos años,
el sabor de la comida, el olor de las especias y las flores,
el calor. Mayo escribe para los sentidos, y para todas las épocas.
El último príncipe del Imperio mexicano es una
historia al mismo tiempo arrolladora e íntima, una historia
sobre la geopolítica, el glamour del poder, los oscuros
laberintos de la ambición, y sobre todo, la historia de
un niño que al final no fue un príncipe sino un
pequeño que pertenecía a sus padres.
"Partiendo de una concienzuda
y afortunada búsqueda en archivos públicos y privados,
Mayo logró reunir un caudal de información notable
de la que hace uso con bastante desenvoltura....No me queda sino
celebrar esta novela, que, comenzando lentamente, termina subyugando
por su notable narración."
Pablo
Soler Frost, Letras Libres |
"En México
se han escrito novelas históricas que recrean con erudición,
maestría y poesía una época, un episodio,
una atmósfera y unos personajes. Pienso, desde luego,
en Noticias del imperio de Fernando del Paso; también
en la obra de Enrique Serna sobre Santa Anna o la reciente novela
de C.M. Mayo: El último príncipe del Imperio
Mexicano, sobre el nieto de Iturbide en la corte de Maximiliano."
Enrique
Krauze
"El
último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano no es una
biografía... O para decirlo más acertadamente,
es mucho más que una biografía. Se trata de una
historia apasionada y original sobre ese experimento trágico,
heroico, cruel, cómico y hasta absurdo que fue el breve
gobierno de Maximiliano de Habsburgo en México. Para escribir
la crónica de esa epopeya, la autora, C.M. Mayo, se involucró
en un esfuerzo de investigación monumental. De no haber
ocurrido de esa manera, el producto editorial habría resultado
muy diferente y, por supuesto, de meor calidad... La perseverencia
en este tipo de indagaciones resulta fundamental. Es la histamina
que impulsa la exploración sin truega y que la autora
nos comparte en esa suerte de confesión intelectual que
es el epílogo de su conmovedor libro."
EduardoTurrent, El Economista |
A novel based on the true story.
A Library Journal Best Book of 2009 in English and a widely-lauded
best-seller in Mexico.
Please note:
this book is currently in print, available in a paperback
edition from
Grijalbo Random House-Mondadori.
(The original
English version
is now available in paperback and Kindle from Unbridled Books.) |
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Miraculous
Air:
Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other
Mexico
By C.M. Mayo
"With elegant prose and an
artist's eye for detail, Mayo may just have written one of the
best books ever about Baja California. Highly recommended"
Library
Journal
"Ay, if only I had been
at C.M. Mayo's side in her rendezvous through Baja California...
My recourse is her joyful, intellectually sparkling chronicle"
Ilan Stavans,
author of The Hispanic Condition
 "A luminous exploration of Baja
California, from its southern tip at Cabo San Lucas to its 'lost
city' of Tijuana... [Mayo] takes the fiction writer's impulse
and blends it with the instincts of a journalist to create a
work of nonfiction that elides into modern myth"
Los Angeles
Times Book Review
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Manta
Ray By C.M.
Mayo
A short story originally
published in Natural Bridge; subsequently anthologized
in Richard Peabody's Grace
& Gravity: Fiction by Washington Women (Paycock Press,
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