Scar Vegas
Subtitle: and other stories
By: Tom Paine.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Description: "From a wealthy American sailor rescued by Haitian boat people, to twin Romanian brothers - a thief and a poet - fleeing the dictator Ceausescu, to a bus driver dropped suddenly onto the front lines of the Gulf War, to acid-dropping skateboard anarchist punks trying to grow up in a corrosive corporate world, Tom Paine's stories are geopolitical parables."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Will you say something, Monsieur Eliot?; title: General Markman's last stand; title: Scar Vegas; title: Unapproved minutes of the Carthage, Vermont Zoning Board of Adjustment; title: The spoon children; title: The hotel on Monkey Forest Road; title: Ceauşescu's cat; title: The mayor of St. John; title: A predictable nightmare on the eve of the stock market breaking 6,000; title: The battle of Khafji.