Gail Godwin, Author, Ana Menendez, Author, Robertson Davies, Author Symphony Space $28 (0p) ISBN 978-1-934033-01-2
This audio collection takes in a range of creatures and wry twists that form a timely antidote to the current trend of putting pets on pedestals. The most notable tale is Gail Godwin\x92s \x93St. George,\x94 in which Curtin captures both the...
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Ana Menendez, Author . Harper $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-172476-3
In her third work of fiction, Pushcart Prize–winner Menéndez (In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
) pits an ambivalent American expatriate photojournalist, nicknamed Flash, against everything she thought was real. While her war-correspondent
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Ana Men%C3%A9ndez. Grove/Black Cat, $14 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7084-2
In her fourth book (after The Last War), Menéndez brings schizophrenic bravado to an ostensible anthology of fictional Cuban poets and writers (a group to which Menéndez herself claims membership) whose works have been collected by Herberto Quain,...
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Ana Menendez, Author . Grove $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1688-8
"Here in America, I may be a short, insignificant mutt, but in Cuba I was a German shepherd," Máximo explains in the first of these 11 short stories. His words are the punch line to one of countless jokes he tells to his cronies at...
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Ana Menendez, Author . Grove $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87113-908-5
In this evocative first novel by short story writer Menéndez (In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
), a young, unnamed Miami woman is granted an intimate look into her provenance with the arrival of a package of old photographs and letters. An...
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