Stories (Paperback)

Eight boring - but politically correct - short stories (most of them first published in Mexico in 1976) from Nicaraguan Vice-President Ramirez. In "Charles Atlas Also Dies," a young Nicaraguan telegraph operator - who works as an informer for an American Marine captain during the 20's and early 30's - transforms himself from a 98-lb. weakling through Charles Atlas' Dynamic Tension System and goes to America to visit Atlas himself, only to find the great man wasting away with cancer. In "The Centerfielder," a former baseball great is executed by the army - not only because his son is with the Sandinistas, but because he once made an error in an important game. In the exceptionally heavy-handed - even for this author - "Nicaragua is White," an elderly meteorologist gets into trouble with Samosa by predicting it will snow in Nicaragua; it does, in the provinces, but not in Managua, the corrupted heart of the country - and so, according to the President, it never happened. And in "To Jackie with All Our Heart," a servile, American-loving Nicaraguan engineer prays fruitlessly for a visit from Jackie Onassis. In all: ham-fisted symbolism tinged with a tired, perfunctory, and derivative surrealism. (Kirkus Reviews)

General

Imprint:	Readers International
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	December 1986
Authors:	Sergio Ramirez
Translators:	N. Caistor
Dimensions:	190 x 130 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	118
ISBN-13:	978-0-930523-29-9
Subtitles:	Spanish
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-930523-29-6
Barcode:	9780930523299

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