| author | Daniel Alarcon |
| publisher | Harper Perennial |
| published | 1969 |
| isbn | 0060594802 |
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Daniel Alarcon's stories are one of the reasons we go to storytellers -- they present worlds we have only imagined or heard about in less truthful and poetic ways. And Mr. Alarcon, like the best storytellers, reveals to us that the world we have secreted in our hearts spins in a bigger universe with other hearts just as good and just as bad as our own. Long before you come to the poignant words, |
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Reader beware: each of the slim tales in War by Candlelight starts off innocently enough, but invariably explodes with the fatal power of a grenade or the sudden, magnificent blossoming of a flower. Daniel Alarcan is a storyteller whose wisdom outpaces his youth, and whose talent is already ablaze. |
| Submitted Oct 17th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments |