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Fado & other stories / Katherine Vaz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaz, Katherine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portuguese--United States--Fiction.
- Portuguese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Fado and Other Stories is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. Katherine Vaz is never afraid to confront her subject's ambiguities and her characters' conflicts - the simultaneous joy and sorrow of some of life's discoveries, the pain sometimes hidden within passion and pleasure.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Original Sin
- The Birth of Water Stones
- My Hunt for King Sebastiao
- Math Bending Unto Angels
- Undressing the Vanity Dolls
- Island Fever
- The Journey of the Eyeball
- Still Life
- Fado
- The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden
- Add Blue to Make White Whiter
- How to Grow Orchids Without Grounds: A Manual
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- "Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize 1997."
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8229-7884-9
- OCLC:
- 878136526
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