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Gods go begging / Alfredo Véa.
LIBRA PS3572.E2 G63 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Véa, Alfredo, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawyers--California--San Francisco--Fiction.
- Lawyers.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Fiction.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Veterans.
- Vietnamese.
- United States.
- California--San Francisco.
- Vietnamese--United States--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Plume, [2000]
- Summary:
- Lawyer Jesse Pasadoble of San Francisco investigates murders with roots in the Vietnam War. The victims were two women, partners in a restaurant, one black, the other Vietnamese. It turns out Pasadoble served with their husbands in Vietnam. By the author of La Maravilla.
- Contents:
- 1. The Amazon luncheonette
- 2. The house of toast
- 3. The male recumbent
- 4. French lessons
- 5. The infamous blue ballet
- 6. Mexicans in space
- 7. On Tourette's hill
- 8. The ballet rose
- 9. The spider's banquet
- 10. Gods go begging
- 11. The women's chorus
- 12. The biscuit libretto
- 13. The soloist
- 14. A night in Tunisia.
- Notes:
- "Previously published in a Dutton edition"--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Véa, Alfredo, 1952- Gods go begging.
- ISBN:
- 0452281156
- 9780452281158
- OCLC:
- 791313753
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