Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories, (Paperback)

from whitewavedarling

First, it's not what you think. It is, however, beautifully written, smart, ironic, injured, and immediate. This is the type of book that we need to not only be reading, but teaching and aspiring to write. For students, I'd see it as the perfect contemporary pairing to texts by Hemingway or Conra...

from aylin1

I picked this book off a shelf at our local library because of the title- and am so glad I didn't pass it up! I was getting ready to put it back on the shelf (since I am generally not a fan of short stories- with a few exceptions) but couldn't stop browsing it. I brought it to a nearby chair, rea...

from johnluiz

A collection that is very much in the Graham Greene genre of innocent and idealistic Americans caught up in the intricate corruption of third-world countries. Unlike Greene, though, who demonstrated that such naivete, combined with the standard American gung-ho, "get-it-done" mentality, can be da...

from RavRita

This book is a contemporary book with short stories dealing with political and social issues. This guy can write. Each short story could easily turn into a page turning novel while somehow succinct and satisfying as a short story. He won a lot of awards for this book and deserved every one of them.

from whitewavedarling

First, it's not what you think. It is, however, beautifully written, smart, ironic, injured, and immediate. This is the type of book that we need to not only be reading, but teaching and aspiring to write. For students, I'd see it as the perfect contemporary pairing to texts by Hemingway or Conra...