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The National Book Award winner pens this surprising collection of short fiction about a twentieth-century man's obsession with recently uncovered love letters from the seventeenth century and a man's encounter with a young deaf girl that transforms his ideas of pity. 30,000 first printing
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Barry Lopez , the author of thirteen books, lives in western Oregon. This is his first new work of fiction in six years.
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fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible characters doing things they shouldn't do for reasons that are mysterious and irreducible. In "The Letters of Heaven," a packet of recently discovered 17th-century Peruvian love letters presents a 20th-century man with the paralyzing choice of either protecting or exposing their stunning secret. When some young boys on the lookout for easy money get caught with a truckload of stolen horses, thievery quickly turns into redemption. For a group of convicts, a gathering of birds in the prison yard may be the key to transcendence, both figurative and literal. And, with the title story, Lopez enters a territory of unmitigated evil reminiscent of Conrad. Here are saints who shouldn't touch, but do; sinners who insist on the life of the spirit; a postcard paradise that turns into nightmare.
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