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Empanada Brotherhood
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Empanada Brotherhood
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Nichols
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:256 | Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 140 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780811860529
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Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Chronicle Books
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Imprint |
Chronicle Books
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Publication Date |
25 September 2007 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
It's Greenwich Village in the 1960s, where ex-patriots, artists, scientists, and rogues meet to exchange ideas and have a good time. A stand selling empanadas on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal streets is the centre of the world for the narrator, an aspiring writer who has just graduated from college. At the stand, he falls in with a bohemian crowd who introduce him to their schemes, ideas, friendship, spicy food - and women, particularly an aspiring flamenco dancer from Argentina. Told in 63 short chapters and close in feeling to Nichols' first work of fiction, "A Sterile Cuckoo", this captures a special place and time, those days of relative innocence and youthful possibility, but it also describes the world. It is a wise and transporting novel.
Author Biography
John Nichols is the author of The Milagro Beanfield War and many other works of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent novel was The Voice of the Butterfly, published by Chronicle Books in 2001.
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