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In less than an hour, Sean has a meeting with a mestizo gangster. On the other side of town, Rosa listens for her husband's car, and thirteen-year-old Vincente is watching for the man who pays money for street-kids' dreams. Tonight, these disparate lives will violently collide...
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and relentless.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Alex Garland
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 225
- Publisher
- Viking, Riverhead Books, Penguin Group UK
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140283532
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