Brief Encounters with Che Guevara - (P.S.) by Ben Fountain (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The well-meaning protagonists of <em>Brief Encounters with Che Guevara</em> are caught--to both disastrous and hilarious effect--in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Brilliant..."--<em>Seattle Times</em><br><br>"... Fountain['s]excursions into foreign infernos have an innocence all their own."--<em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em><br><br>"...Fountain's stories reach for a broader engagement...This book is a step in the right direction."--<em>Boston Sunday Globe</em><br><br>"Fountain ... gets his message across without forsaking characterization and vivid descriptiveness. . .a revealing view of the human condition."--<em>Miami Herald</em><br><br>"He imbues each narrative with an understanding of international politics and conflicts, and the sticky moral complexities involved."--<em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em><br><br>"In this first collection the author brings the virtuosity of Greene and le Carre to tales of foreign adventures."--<em>Boston Globe</em><br><br>"Short-story collections don't come much better than this. Brief Encounters With Che Guevara offers pointed prose, nimble revelation..."--<em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em><br><br>"Ben Fountain writes the kind of stories that Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene used to write...--San Diego Union-Tribune<br><br>" ... Fountain chooses just the right details, metaphors, similes and descriptions...life rendered in sentences seem[s] as life lived."--<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br><br>"...exceptional story collection..."--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"An exceptional story collection. . . Heartbreaking, absurd, deftly drawn. . ."--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>". . .finely crafted. . . irony abounds in Fountain's mini-theaters of the absurd."--Texas Monthly<br><br>". . .grand. . . darkly funny. . . important as anything you will see on the nightly news."--Deseret Morning News<br><br>". . .wonderful. . .lush, sophisticated...very funny. . .Fountain is an original..."--Boston Herald<br><br>"... an author with a gift for reaching into the past and producing something compelling and new."--Baltimore Sun<br><br>"...an author with a gift for reaching into the past and producing something compelling and new."--Los Angeles Book Review<br><br>"...exceptional story collection..."--Raleigh News & Observer<br><br>" ...the ambition and global outlook of Fountain's fiction marks a welcome addition to the literature produced in our state."--Houston Chronicle<br><br>"[A] brilliant...exhilarating book, filled with heavenly language and insight."--Tom Bissell, author of Chasing the Sea and God Lives in St. Petersburg<br><br>"[Fountain's] really a bright light on character in extreme conditions."--Will Blythe, The News and Observer<br><br>"[Fountain] is a gifted storyteller and his collection will blow your literary socks off."--Tucson Citizen<br><br>"An impeccable debut collection; if Fountain can keep it up, he's an heir to Paul Theroux."--Kirkus Reviews<br><br>"An impressive and entertaining book of short stories..."--Newsday<br><br>"Ben Fountain takes readers all over the world, navigating the alleys of the human soul with an expert's hand."--The California Aggie<br><br>"Ben Fountain writes deftly about fear and disorientation abroad in his first story collection."--Outside magazine<br><br>"Ben Fountain...blew me out of the water. These stories are absolutely jaw-dropping."--Audrey Bullar, team leader, Jospeh-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati, Ohio, for PW's Galley Talk<br><br>"Exhilarating first story collection."--New York Newsday<br><br>"Fountain has the storytelling gifts to bring the world home to us and a moral compass set to true north."--Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan<br><br>"Fountain is a writer to watch; better, a writer to read."--Buffalo News<br><br>"Fountain... is the perfect author to convert people who don't read short stories."--Arkansas Democrat-Gazette<br><br>"Fountain's confidence in taking on real world problems is matched by his reluctance to pontificate or judge."--Nell Freudenberger, author of The Dissident<br><br>"It is such an unexpected joy, in this age of introspection, to discover an American writer with a global outlook."--Jim Crace, author of Genesis and Being Dead<br><br>"Superb debut story collection... Fountain knows the Third World; he [writes] with a precision that suggests firsthand knowledge."--Salon<br><br>"The work of a talented writer pursuing compelling and complicated themes."--Austin Chronicle<br><br>"Wildly plotted, astutely observed, and beautifully rendered."--Daivd Means, author of Assorted Fire Events and The Secret Goldfish<br>
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