Battles in the desert & other stories / José Emilio Pacheco ; translated by Katherine Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pacheco, José Emilio.

Contributor:

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Pacheco, José Emilio--Translations into English.

Pacheco, José Emilio.

Manners and customs.

Mexico.

Mexico--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1, 2 & 3)

Physical Description:

v, 117 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Battles in the desert and other stories

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., [1987]

Summary:

Battles in the Desert & Other Stories, 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, Pacheco 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.

Contents:

The pleasure principle

You wouldn't understand

The sunken park

The captive

August afternoon

Acheron

Battles in the desert.

Notes:

Translated from Spanish.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 is New Directions Paperback 637, NDP637.

ISBN:

0811210197

9780811210195

0811210200

9780811210201

OCLC:

14818234