Loverboys: Stories
by Castillo, Ana
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0393039595
- ISBN 13
- 9780393039597
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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Synopsis
Loverboys is the award-winning author Ana Castillo's stunning collection of twenty-three stories that depict the wildly varied faces of love, from rapturous beginnings to bittersweet endings. From the regret-tinged soulfulness of the title story in which a woman reminisces about a former lover, to the down-and-dirty settling of scores in "Vatolandia" to the high-spirited comedy of "La Miss Rose," about a West Indian fortuneteller on a mission to help the lovelorn, Ana Castillo bares the secret hearts of women and men. By turns hopeful, hilarious, and heartbreaking, Loverboys is an irresistible pairing of author and subject. In prose that is at once erotic and eloquent, streetwise and surreal-in a voice like no other in recent literary fiction-Ana Castillo covers the waterfront of modern romance and proves why she is, in the words of Julia Alvarez, "a first-rate storyteller."
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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JCOScasLOV
- Title
- Loverboys: Stories
- Author
- Castillo, Ana
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393039595
- ISBN 13
- 9780393039597
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996-08-01
- Size
- 9x6x1
- X weight
- 9 oz
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