Battles in the Desert & Other Stories - Hardcover
Pacheco, Jose Emilio. Battles in the Desert & Other Stories. Translated by Katherine Silver. First American edition. New York, New Directions Publishing Corpoation, 1987. 21 cm. V, 117 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition first English language edition signed and inscribed by the author with only very minor signs of external wear. Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed. (Amazon)
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About the Author:
Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939- ) is one of Mexico's foremost poets, novelists, and essayists. A lifelong resident of Mexico City, Pacheco has been a guest lecturer throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain. Some of Pacheco's best known collections of poetry include Miro la tierra (which documented the Mexico City earthquake), El reposo del fuego, Fin de siglo y otros poemas, Arbol entere dos muros/Tree between two walls, andSelected Poems. His No me preguntas como pasa el tiempo was awarded Mexico's National Poetry Prize. New Directions publishes two titles by Emilio Pacheco: Battles in the Desert & Other Stories, translated by Katherine Silver; and Selected Poems, Edited by George McWhirter with various translators (bilingual) (both 1987).
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This book is 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, he 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.
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- PublisherNew Directions Publishing
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0811210197
- ISBN 13 9780811210195
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages124
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