Shorts
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Book Overview
A genre-bending collection of tales from one of Latin America's most radically original minds In Shorts, Alberto Fuguet brilliantly chronicles the occasionally bizarre, unceasingly turbulent existence of the geographically and emotionally displaced. From the tale of a childless Chilean couple with an antiseptic life philosophy to an account of a desperate man who "disappears" himself in Texas, dreaming that someone actually wants to...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0060817143
ISBN13:9780060817145
Release Date:November 2005
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"
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Contemporary Fiction Foreign Language Fiction Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCustomer Reviews
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McOnda? - que onda!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I guess I'm just not a big McOnda fan - the movement seems to me to combine the worst of Latin American & North American culture. It just seems too superficial & solipsistic. However, Fuguete does have the skill to keep me interested in stuff I wouldn't normally go back to, so I'll give this one a 4. I found it more interesting that Films of My Life.
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