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Mexico : stories / Josh Barkan

By:

Barkan, Joshua, 1969-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Hogarth, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 242 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781101906293

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DDC classification:

FIC BAR

Summary: The unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan's story collection - chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty queen, classical bass player, plastic surgeon, businessman, mime--are simply trying to lead their lives and steer clear of violence. Yet, inevitably, crime has a way of intruding on their lives all the same. A surgeon finds himself forced into performing a risky procedure on a narco killer. A teacher struggles to protect lovestruck students whose forbidden romance has put them in mortal peril. A painter's freewheeling ways land him in the back of a kidnapper's car. Again and again, the walls between "ordinary life" and cartel violence are shown to be paper thin, and when they collapse the consequences are life-changing.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	FIC BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Fiction		014794

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The unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan's story collection - chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty queen, classical bass player, plastic surgeon, businessman, mime--are simply trying to lead their lives and steer clear of violence. Yet, inevitably, crime has a way of intruding on their lives all the same. A surgeon finds himself forced into performing a risky procedure on a narco killer. A teacher struggles to protect lovestruck students whose forbidden romance has put them in mortal peril. A painter's freewheeling ways land him in the back of a kidnapper's car. Again and again, the walls between "ordinary life" and cartel violence are shown to be paper thin, and when they collapse the consequences are life-changing.

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