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- Publisher: Riverhead Books (2008)
- ASIN: B002PNMRPQ
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Beautiful and compelling,
By pinkhydrangea "fanatic reader/writer" (los angeles, ca) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Draining the Sea (Paperback)
A gorgeous, disturbing meditation on genocide. Marcom delves into the depths of the civil war in Guatemala and the Armenian genocide linked through the consciousness of one half-Armenian/half-American man in Los Angeles. Flashing back and forth in time, memories, and sensibilites, this is a novel that is often difficult to read but rewarding to those who persist. Its renderings of horror are as unfliching as its great lyrical gifts. No one in the world writes like Micheline Marcom. She is one of literature's unsung heroines.
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THIS IS A FICTION: a man; a man collects corpses, proceeds on the streets of this city, the city an amass of street, of canine corpses he collects, loads them into his motorcar, and the bleeding snout, crushed full canines, the black and blow flies in the anus the snout the genitals; these black corpses, these half-breeds, and not worth a dollar, he thinks; he thinks that if he could kill them all he would do it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tierra fria, guerrilla compounds, foot deep fifteen foot, ancient spoors, white barred window, green armchair, dog corpses, padded armchair Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Der Zor, Pan American Highway, Ixil Area, Owens Valley, San Fernando Valley, Blue Bird, Cold War, New World, Doņa Ana, Santa Monica Mountains, Santa Monica Boulevard, Sierra Nevada, North American, Pedro de Alvarado, Altos Cuchumatanes, Dios Me Bendiga, Ventura Boulevard, Five Phrases, Bone Boy Browse Sample Pages:
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THIS IS A FICTION: a man; a man collects corpses, proceeds on the streets of this city, the city an amass of street, of canine corpses he collects, loads them into his motorcar, and the bleeding snout, crushed full canines, the black and blow flies in the anus the snout the genitals; these black corpses, these half-breeds, and not worth a dollar, he thinks; he thinks that if he could kill them all he would do it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tierra fria, guerrilla compounds, foot deep fifteen foot, ancient spoors, white barred window, green armchair, dog corpses, padded armchair Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Der Zor, Pan American Highway, Ixil Area, Owens Valley, San Fernando Valley, Blue Bird, Cold War, New World, Doņa Ana, Santa Monica Mountains, Santa Monica Boulevard, Sierra Nevada, North American, Pedro de Alvarado, Altos Cuchumatanes, Dios Me Bendiga, Ventura Boulevard, Five Phrases, Bone Boy Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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