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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
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About Brief Encounters With Che Guevara: Stories
Product Description The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara 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. Review “...exceptional story collection...” -- New York Times Book Review “In this first collection the author brings the virtuosity of Greene and le Carre to tales of foreign adventures.” -- Boston Globe “Brilliant...” -- Seattle Times “An impressive and entertaining book of short stories...” -- Newsday “An impeccable debut collection; if Fountain can keep it up, he’s an heir to Paul Theroux.” -- Kirkus Reviews “Exhilarating first story collection.” -- New York Newsday “…exceptional story collection…” -- Raleigh News & Observer “Ben Fountain writes deftly about fear and disorientation abroad in his first story collection.” -- Outside magazine “[Fountain] is a gifted storyteller and his collection will blow your literary socks off.” -- Tucson Citizen “Wildly plotted, astutely observed, and beautifully rendered.” -- Daivd Means, author of Assorted Fire Events and The Secret Goldfish “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 “Fountain’s confidence in taking on real world problems is matched by his reluctance to pontificate or judge.” -- Nell Freudenberger, author of The Dissident “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 “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 “[A] brilliant...exhilarating book, filled with heavenly language and insight.” -- Tom Bissell, author of Chasing the Sea and God Lives in St. Petersburg “. . .finely crafted. . . irony abounds in Fountain’s mini-theaters of the absurd.” -- Texas Monthly “Fountain ... gets his message across without forsaking characterization and vivid descriptiveness. . .a revealing view of the human condition.” -- Miami Herald “...Fountain’s stories reach for a broader engagement...This book is a step in the right direction.” -- Boston Sunday Globe “. . .wonderful. . .lush, sophisticated...very funny. . .Fountain is an original...” -- Boston Herald “Ben Fountain writes the kind of stories that Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene used to write.” -- Dallas Morning News “. . .grand. . . darkly funny. . . important as anything you will see on the nightly news.” -- Deseret Morning News “[Fountain’s] really a bright light on character in extreme conditions.” -- Will Blythe, The News and Observer “An exceptional story collection. . . Heartbreaking, absurd, deftly drawn. . .” -- New York Times Book Review “Ben Fountain writes the kind of stories that Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene used to write... -- San Diego Union-Tribune “... Fountain[’s]excursions into foreign infernos have an innocence all their own.” -- Cleveland Plain Dealer “Superb debut story collection... Fountain knows the Third World; he [writes] with a precision that suggests firsthand knowledge.” -- Salon “The work of a talented writer pursuing compelling and complicated themes.” -- Austin Chronicle “...an author with a gift for reaching into the past and producing something compelling and new.” -- Los Angeles Book Review “Fountain is a writer to watch; better, a writer to read.” -- Buffalo News “ ... Fountain chooses just the right details, metaphors, similes and descriptions...life rendered in sentences seem[s] as life lived.” -- San Francisco Chronicle “... an author with a gift for reaching into the past and producing something compelling and new.” -- Balt
