Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) |
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Print version record. |
Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; Introduction by Howard Norman; Paradise, or Eat Your Face; Care; When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears and Watered Heaven with Their Tears; About The Author. |
Summary |
From acclaimed author Alan Cheuse -- National Public Radio's longtime "Voice of Books"--Comes a trio of provocative novellas. In the title piece, "Paradise, or, Eat Your Face," we meet travel writer Susan Wheelis and follow her exotic journey to Bali, and into her own frustrated soul. "Care" centers on Rafe Santera, a recent stroke victim who was once a vibrant, intellectual romantic. Attended by one of his many female admirers, we find ourselves in the midst of an unusual and politically incorrect love story. Cheuse takes us into Santera's erotic past, set against the daily struggles of a h. |
Subject |
Travel writers -- Fiction.
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Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
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Romantic (The English word) -- Fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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FICTION -- General.
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Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients.
(OCoLC)fst00851377
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Romantic (The English word) (OCoLC)fst01100132
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Travel writers. (OCoLC)fst01201256
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Other Form: |
Print version: Cheuse, Alan. Paradise, or, Eat your face. Chicago : Santa Fe Writer's Project, ©2012 9780981966199 |
ISBN |
9780981966168 (electronic bk.) |
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0981966160 (electronic bk.) |
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9780981966175 (electronic bk.) |
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0981966179 (electronic bk.) |
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