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Enchiladas, rice, and beans / Daniel Reveles

By:

Reveles, Daniel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books , c1994.Edition: 1st edDescription: 261 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780345384263

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC REV

LOC classification:

PS3568.E785 E53 1994

Summary: Reveles sandwiches nine courses of short stories between an appetizer preface and a postprandial epilog, spinning each yarn like a folksy retelling one might likely hear over the dinner table. Embued with delightful self-deprecating humor and O. Henry-like ironic twists, such as the monetary crisis that doubles as peripeteia in "Jeemy," these novellas deal with daily life in the Baja California border town of Tecate and its inhabitants, who reappear in successive tales. Absurd and often verging on the nonsensical, the stories don't explain the events except by rationalizing that "we don't control our culture, it controls us."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC REV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		039625

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"A One World book"--T.p. verso.

Reveles sandwiches nine courses of short stories between an appetizer preface and a postprandial epilog, spinning each yarn like a folksy retelling one might likely hear over the dinner table. Embued with delightful self-deprecating humor and O. Henry-like ironic twists, such as the monetary crisis that doubles as peripeteia in "Jeemy," these novellas deal with daily life in the Baja California border town of Tecate and its inhabitants, who reappear in successive tales. Absurd and often verging on the nonsensical, the stories don't explain the events except by rationalizing that "we don't control our culture, it controls us."

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