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Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes, in-laws, and coworkers, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives, a task easier said than done in Mobile, Alabama, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status, race, and class, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for...

?Una crónica eléctrica, violenta, emparentada con Uno de los nuestros y que revela las conexiones del hampa con el Estado y la política.? Qué...

Monterrey abombado, como agapanto sabinoso. Oncante. Soltro. El Monterrey de mis amores, con su Plaza Zaragoza, ya no es. Ha mutado en un monstruo hambrento y solferino que devora todo a su paso: pobres y ricos, empresarios y merolicos, fifís y chairos, indios y vaqueros, técnicos y rudos, lesbianas y homosexuales, veganos y carnívoros. Todos se encuentran expuestos. Benofros. Mutuos. Indefensos ante el comunismo, la violencia, el delito, la corrupción, la inquina, el estupro. No hay salida, Monterrey es una empresa que no produce ilusiones esperanzas, sueños. De nada sirve tener tanto...

Raymond Fraser books have been called powerful, insightful, moving, irreverent, disturbing and outrageously funny. Filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, COSTA BLANCA features a novella and stories set in Spain, Boston, Toronto and the east coast of Canada.What the critics have said of Raymond Fraser's stories:"A highly original voice that is occasionally sad, sometimes very comic. A real pleasure to read." ALAN DAWE, Vancouver Sun ...... "Comic and horrifying." HEATHER SANDERSON, Canadian Literature ...... "Perceptive, magnetic and laced with humour." ANNE INGRAM, The Gleaner...