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Kushner, Rachel.
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Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Explorers -- Fiction.
Healers -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Cuba -- Fiction.
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Kushner, Rachel.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Explorers -- Fiction.
Healers -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Cuba -- Fiction.
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The strange case of
Rachel
K
/
Rachel
Kushner.
by
Kushner,
Rachel
.
New Directions Publishing Corporation, c2015.
Call #:
FICTION KUS
Subjects
Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Explorers -- Fiction.
Healers -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Cuba -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780811224215
081122421X
Alternate title:
Rachel
K
Description:
80 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
The great exception -- Debouchment -- The strange case of
Rachel
K
.
Summary:
"An explorer’s whereabouts keep a queen in waiting; a faith healer’s illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a president’s offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute expecting to cooperate fully--the three short fictions gathered in The Great Exception build into a vision of Cuba that is black-humored, brutal, and beautiful. Written prior to the publication of
Rachel
Kushner’s first acclaimed novel Telex From Cuba, these stories, like Roberto Bolano’s Antwerp, burst forth with the genesis of her fictional universe as though fired from a cannon. From the mythical title story, to the ominous 'Debouchment'--originally published in her too short-lived journal Soft Targets--to the sexy and noirish 'Strange Case of
Rachel
K
,' this is Kushner saddling up for a journey into the wilds of the modern novel."--From publisher.
Genre:
Short stories.
Noir fiction.
Literary fiction.
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