Points of Departure
Contributors: Monica Lavin (Editor); Gustavo V. Segade (Translator)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780872863811
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Short stories; Short stories, Mexican; Fiction; Fiction - General; Translations into English; Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Caribbean & Latin American; 20th century; Mexican fiction
First sentence: THIS LIFE IS DISGUSTING, SOTO SAID TO HIMSELF AS HE FLOPPED HIS BODY INTO a chair, his flesh quivering all over, feeling his weight causing his vertebrae to flatten their discs until they groaned.