| Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion Contributor(s): Ras, Barbara (Editor), Arias, Oscar (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1883513006 ISBN-13: 9781883513009 Publisher: Whereabouts Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: A collection of 30 remarkable stories by Costa Rican writers--most of which is available in English for the first time. Whether searching for something relevant and entertaining to read on Costa Rica's idyllic beaches or looking for Latin American enchantment back home, this is a fiction reader's cultural guidebook to the country. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American - Travel | Central America |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93041735 |
| Series: Traveller's Literary Companion (Whereabouts) |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.04" W x 7.23" (0.58 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country's allure and vitality, its coffee fields and palm groves, cicadas and songbirds, shrouded mountains and blazing savannas, while telling stories unique to Costa Rican life. Contributors include Alfredo Aguilar, Fernando Dur n Ayanegui, Alfonso Chase, Quince Duncan, Fabi n Dobles, Louis Ducoudray, Carlos Luis Fallas, Mario Gonz les Feo, Joaqu n Guti rrez, Carlos Salazar Herrera, Max Jim nez, Carmen Lyra, Carmen Naranjo, Yolanda Oreamuno, Abel Pacheco, Julieta Pinto, Uriel Quesada, Samuel Rovinski, Jos Le n S nchez, and Rima de Vallbona. |