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Set in Mexico City during the early fifities, the story follows William Lee from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene as he pursues a young man named Allerton.
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Grave, prestige, cool and spare.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 150
- Publisher
- CHRISTIAN BOURGOIS, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780141189918
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First sentence
“Lee turned his attention to a Jewish boy named Carl Steinberg, whom he had known casually for about a year.”
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