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Author:

Benedetti, Mario, 1920-

Title:

Blood pact & other stories / Mario Benedetti ; edited by Claribel Alegría & Darwin Flakoll ; translated by Daniel Balderston ... [et al.].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Curbstone Press,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

213 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Benedetti, Mario,--1920---Translations into English.

Other Authors:

Alegría, Claribel.
Flakoll, D. J. (Darwin J.)

Contents:

The budget -- Iriarte Family -- Lead us into temptation -- Requiem over tea -- The night of the ugly ones -- The widowers of Margaret Sullavan -- The Demitasse cups -- The attic -- The stars and you -- Sic transit Gloria -- The price of rage -- Jules and Jim -- Fable with Pope -- Miss Amnesia -- Perhaps beyond repair -- Five years of life -- The other side -- Just like Greenwich -- A note for Paula -- Just kidding -- Post Mortem -- Fidelities -- A Bolivian with an outlet to the sea -- Isosceles triangle -- Maison Lucrèce -- The Williamses and the Peabodys -- Blood pact.

Summary:

A collection of satirical stories on Uruguay by a writer whose works were banned and he himself sent into exile. Many of the protagonists are ordinary people battling bureaucracy.

ISBN:

9781880684399
188068439X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34633473

LCCN:

96021343

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)