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Description
The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar,... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Sonny couldn't sleep. At night the bungalow closed around him like a coffin, a recurring personal drama that was greatly enhanced by the power grid's collapse every evening at ten. No lights, no air conditioning, no civilization of any kind; Sonny lay there grazing the coffin lid with every breath and listening to the wildlife beyond his walls, the jet-turbine roar of frogs in heat, the fricative screech of insect group sex. Together with the slurry flow of thoughts in his head it all merged into a riot of nightly delirium, and yet there were times when he could leave his body and float above it, like a dream where he watched himself from outside -- from this perspective life seemed more surreal than ever. Burma, he'd whisper, trying to make it real, Burma, Burma, the word so loaded and fraught that it might have been a prayer. How, exactly, had he ended up here? And how was he going to get back home?”
from "Asian Tiger"
First Sentence
No way Blair insisted to anone who asked, no self-respecting bunch of extortionist rebels would ever want to kidnap him.
Table of Contents
1. Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera
2. Reve Haitien
3. The Good Ones Are Already Taken
4. Asian Tiger
5. Bouki and the Cocaine
6. The Lion's Mouth
7. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
8. Fantasy for Eleven Fingers
Authors & Contributors
- Ben Fountain (Author)
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