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The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories
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The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Fuentes, Carlos and Julio Ortega, eds

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  • Title The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories
  • Author Fuentes, Carlos and Julio Ortega, eds
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-12-05
  • Bookseller's Inventory # C33000
  • ISBN 9780679775515 / 067977551X
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.19 x 0.9 in (20.24 x 13.18 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects Latin American fiction - 20th century, Short stories, Latin American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00712739
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

Carlos Fuentes is the author of more than a dozen novels. He lives in Mexico and London. Julio Ortega is a professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University.

From the jacket flap

In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World," the Garcia Marquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; "The Aleph," Borges' classic tale of a man who discovers, in a colleague's cellar, the Universe. Here is the haunting shades of Juan Rulfo, the astonishing anxiety puzzles of Julio Cortazar, the disquieted domesticity of Clarice Lispector. Provocative, powerful, immensely engaging, The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories showcases the ingenuity, diversity, and continuing excellence of a vast and vivid literary tradition.

Media reviews

"Each and every [story in] this collection is a treasure." --The Guardian

"Latin American fiction is where serious debate can be found and, at its best, makes the contemporary English equivalent seem frivolous and lacking in courage." --The Times (London)

Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2000, Page 519
  • BookPage, 05/01/2001, Page 13
  • Library Journal, 01/01/2001, Page 159
  • Poder Hispanic, 03/01/2001, Page 66
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/06/2000, Page 72

About the author

Carlos Fuentes is the author of more than a dozen novels. He lives in Mexico and London. Julio Ortega is a professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University.

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