A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America. Edited by Thomas Colchie.
New York: Dutton, 1991. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This collection of stories by twenty-six Latin American authors features the new voices and celebrated masters of one of the world's foremost literatures. Explore the gothic sexual ambiguities of Carlos Fuentes’ “The Doll Queen,” the psychological compression of Clarice Lispector’s “Love,” or the baroque pyrotechnics of Machado de Assis and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Discover the parodically hard-boiled detective fiction of Ana Lydia Vega and some decidedly soft-boiled criminals in Rubem Fonesca’s “Lonelyhearts.”. Item #28588
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