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The Stars Above Veracruz
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As author Barry Gifford was writing these pieces, he gradually came to realize that what he was creating was a geographical fiction, or a geography of fictions. As Barry explains, "Everybody has a story, no matter where they are in the world, and I conceived the device of The Ropedancer when I was in Veracruz, Mexico, at a hotel much like the Hotel Los Regalos de Dios, where the former funambulist, whom I call The Ropedancer, took up residence following the demise of the Dancing Ciegas, who plunged to their deaths from a high wire." Many of these stories are tragic, some humorous, but all told by individuals in the confessional mode which is often the posture assumed by persons adrift in a foreign land and who find themselves not uncomfortably in conversation late at night with a stranger.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781560258070 |
Publisher: | Thunder's Mouth |
Imprint: | Thunder's Mouth Press |
Pub date: | 02 Jan 2006 |
DEWEY: | 813.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 256 |
Weight: | 363g |
Height: | 194mm |
Width: | 127mm |
Spine width: | 24mm |