The Last Flight of Jose Luis Balboa
ISBN: 9780618658862 | 0618658866
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date: 9/14/2006
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Set in vibrant, multicultural Miami, The Last Flight of Jose Luis Balboa is an absorbing debut collection of short stories from a gifted writer. Gonzalo Barr captures this international hub city in all its roiling guises, from the opulence of South Beach to the ferocity of Little Havana. Barr introduces us to unforgettable characters -- an unscrupulous newscaster, a Lincoln Road bar manager, a beautiful but cruel teenaged heartbreaker, and the title character, a suicidal Latin pop star -- in situations that teem with humor and brutality, absurd... MORE
| Foreword by Francine Prose | ix | ||
| Braulio Wants His Car Back | 1 | (12) | |
| Coup d'État | 13 | (18) | |
| Faith | 31 | (22) | |
| Melancholy Guide through the Country of Want | 53 | (38)... MORE | |
| Nothing | 91 | (12) | |
| The Sleepless Nights of Humberto Castaño | 103 | (4) | |
| Bay at Night | 107 | (6) | |
| A Natural History of Love | 113 | (52) | |
| The Last Flight of José Luis Balboa | 165 | (26) | |
| Acknowledgments | 191 | (2) | |
| Bread Loaf and the Bakeless Prizes | 193 |
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