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The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Yann Martel
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9780156032452 Trade Paperback
0156032457
$13.00
228pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
1993
Territory:
US, O
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Bonus Material
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Synopsis |
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Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon.
Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A Canadian university student visiting Washington, D.C., experiences the Vietnam War through an intense musical encounter. Variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. A young man's fascination with the mirror-making machine he finds in his grandmother's attic is juxtaposed with the reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother. And, in the exquisite title story, a young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century.
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Biography |
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YANN MARTEL is the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Life of Pi. When he stays put, he lives in Montreal.
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Fiction- Short Stories (single author)
Fiction- Literary
Fiction- General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- Comparative Literature
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English Language & Literature- General
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English Language & Literature- World Literature
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Interdisciplinary Studies- Canadian Studies
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