- American Short stories, Short stories, Fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author)
A collection of short stories includes "A Model World", "Millionaires", and a series of tales about a young boy experiencing the pain of his parents' imminent divorce.
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Classical in form, spare, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 207
- Publisher
- Random House Value Publishing, Perennial, Anagrama
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9782876451001
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