- Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Collection of mystery short stories: "The Fourth Homonym" (1985) "Unique Is Where You Find It" (1985) "The Lucky Piece" (1990) "Triple Devil" (1985) "Sunset on the Water" (1986) "Where Is He?" (1986) "The Old Purse" (1987) "The Quiet Place" (1988) "The Four-Leaf Clover" (1990) "The Envelope" (1989) "The Alibi" (1989) "The Recipe" (1990)
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Classical in form, spare, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Alianza Editorial, Editions 10/18
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780385262644
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Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942
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