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by Yann Martel
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Written earlier in Martel's career, these four unforgettable tales are as moving as they are thought-provoking, as inventive in form as they are timeless.
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Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon.
Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A Canadian university student visiting Washington, D.C., experiences the Vietnam War through an intense musical encounter. Variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. A young man's fascination with the mirror-making machine he finds in his grandmother's attic is juxtaposed with the reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother. And, in the exquisite title story, a young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century.
Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A Canadian university student visiting Washington, D.C., experiences the Vietnam War through an intense musical encounter. Variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. A young man's fascination with the mirror-making machine he finds in his grandmother's attic is juxtaposed with the reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother. And, in the exquisite title story, a young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century.
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- Title The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
- Author Yann Martel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, New York
- Publication date 2005-09-05
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156032452 / 0156032457
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 6.28 x 0.64 in (20.88 x 15.95 x 1.63 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Friendship
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, American
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004017505
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 64
- New York Times, 10/02/2005, Page 32
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