- Home ownership, Immigrants, Iranian Americans, Fiction
A former colonel in the Iranian Air Force yearns to restore his family's dignity. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to the one thing she has left.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Andre Dubus III
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 367
- Publisher
- Vintage, Vintage Contemporaries, W. W. Norton
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393338119
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“THE FAT ONE, THE RADISH TOREZ, HE CALLS ME CAMEL BECAUSE I AM Persian and because I can bear this August sun longer than the Chinese and the Panamanians and even the little Vietnamese Tran.”
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