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Title: The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman ISBN: 0-8021-3547-1 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (14 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: the long book about white chickens
Comment: the sporatic time construction in the story line causes the reader to have to wade through the same scene over and over again, some times even described with the exact same wording. The book would not have suffered from a quick reread by a tough editor before being sent to the presses. Worth reading, the man obviously has talent and I'm going to assume the repetition and crazy time sequence was done to simulate latin american lifestyle but boy, was i ready to get to that last page.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sooo true!
Comment: Although there have been many complaints about the author's writing, I had no trouble following this book. This guy writes like Guatemalans talk (he has no discernible train of thought, jumps from subject to subject and goes on way too long)and his narrator is annoyingly shallow and self-involved and feels way to sorry for himself, so it was like going out on any given occasion and hearing a typical sob story from a guy who's had too much to drink... I felt right at home! He got all the expressions and all the scenery right.. the description of street kids sniffing glue while looking in store windows made me laugh and cry, because it's so familiar and sad. But I must admit that the most fun I had with this book was passing it around to my family and friends and then figuring out who the characters really were (and if you're Guatemalan, you can). Fijate vos, I really enjoyed this one...
Rating: 5
Summary: Totally Enjoyable
Comment: Like most readers, I was confused my the crazy timeline. The story is told out of sequences with flashbacks that last forever. It can be confusing. But once you let go of that it becomes easier to surrender to the story. The characters are lovable. It is a long read but every time I put the book down I missed Roger, Flor, Mora, and the rest.
Just enjoy it!
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Title: The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman ISBN: 080213548X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Guatemalan Journey by Stephen Connely Benz ISBN: 0292708408 Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson ISBN: 0618221395 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Sea, the Sea (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie ISBN: 014118616X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu, E. Burgos-Debray, Ann Wright, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray ISBN: 0860917886 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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