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A Hammock beneath the mangoes : stories from Latin America / edited by Thomas Colchie.

LIBRA PQ7087.E5 H35 1992
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Colchie, Thomas, editor.
Series:
Plume fiction
Language:
English
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Short stories, Latin American--Translations into English.
Short stories, Latin American.
Latin American fiction--20th century--Translations into English.
Latin American fiction.
Genre:
short stories.
Short stories.
Translations.
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xiv, 430 pages ; 23 cm.
Other Title:
Stories from Latin America
Place of Publication:
New York, New York, U.S.A. : Plume, [1991]
Language Note:
Translated into English from the original Spanish.
Contents:
The dead man / Horacio Quiroga
Axolotl / Julio Cortázar
Waiting for Polidoro / Armonía Somers
The circular ruins / Jorge Luís Borges
The dog will have its day / Juan Carlos Onetti
The idol / Adolfo Bioy Casares
Relative humidity 95% / Manuel Puig
Toad's mouth / Isabel Allende
The miracle of the birds / Jorge Amado
The ex-magician from the Minhota Tavern / Murilo Rubia̋o
Love / Clarice Lispector
The psychiatrist / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The plagues / Moacyr Scliar
The third bank of the river / Joáo Guimara̋es Rosa
It was a different day when they killed the pig / Joáo Ubaldo Ribeiro
The corset / Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lonelyhearts / Rubem Fonseca
Twice with Helena / Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes
The doll queen / Carlos Fuentes
Luvina / Juan Rulfo
The gift / Rosario Ferré
Bestial among the flowers / Reinaldo Arenas
Story-bound / Ana Lydia Vega
The last voyage of the ghost ship / Gabriel García Márquez
The phantom of the Essoldo / Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Journey back to the source / Alejo Carpentier.
Contains:
Container of: Quiroga, Horacio, 1878-1937. Dead man.
Container of: Cortázar, Julio. Axolotl.
Container of: Somers, Armonía. Waiting for Polidoro.
Container of: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Ruinas circulares. English.
Container of: Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1909-1994. Dog will have its day.
Container of: Bioy Casares, Adolfo. Idol.
Container of: Puig, Manuel. Relative humidity 95%.
Container of: Allende, Isabel. Toad's mouth.
Container of: Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001. Milagre dos pássaros. English
Container of: Rubião, Murilo. Ex-magician from the Minhota Tavern.
Container of: Lispector, Clarice. Love.
Container of: Machado de Assis, 1839-1908. Psychiatrist.
Container of: Scliar, Moacyr. Plagues.
Container of: Rosa, João Guimarães, 1908-1967. Terceira margem do rio. English
Container of: Ribeiro, João Ubaldo, 1941-2014. It was a different day when they killed the pig.
Container of: Telles, Lygia Fagundes. Corset.
Container of: Fonseca, Rubem. Lonelyhearts.
Container of: Gomes, Paulo Emílio Salles, 1916-1977. Twice with Helena.
Container of: Fuentes, Carlos. Doll queen.
Container of: Rulfo, Juan. Luvina. English.
Container of: Ferré, Rosario. Gift.
Container of: Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990. Bestial among the flowers.
Container of: Vega, Ana Lydia, 1946- Story-bound.
Container of: García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014. Last voyage of the ghost ship.
Container of: Cabrera Infante, G. (Guillermo), 1929-2005. Phantom of the Essoldo.
Container of: Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Journey back to the source.
ISBN:
0452268664
9780452268661
OCLC:
25706690

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