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All posts by Dave Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text

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If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »

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Battles in the Desert and Other Stories

by Jose Emilio Pacheco

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Publisher Comments:

Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.

Synopsis:

Pacheco, Battles in the Desert. Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.

Synopsis:

This book is a collection of short fiction that deals mainly with themes of childhood and innocence betrayed, is the first book of Pacheco's fiction to appear in English. Here there are no narrative arabesques, no flights of magical-realist fancy. Instead, he confronts the reader with the uglier sides of urban Mexico--its grime, its beggars, its suffocating pollution, the constricted lives of its lower middle class--all with a simplicity and directness of style impeccably shaped and clearly distilled.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780811210201
Translator:
Pacheco, Jose Emilio
Author:
Silver, Katherine
Author:
Pacheco, Jose Emilio
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Mexico
Subject:
Mexico Social life and customs Fiction.
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
Pacheco, Jose Emilio
Series Volume:
no. 81
Publication Date:
May 1987
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
128
Dimensions:
8.09x4.97x.33 in. .35 lbs.
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