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Virgil Suarez's latest short story collection--his first in more than two decades--is subversive and emotionally piercing. A man whose yard is plagued by armadillos, a pair of boys who torment scorpions with gasoline fires, and a father's best friend wasting away with an illness as a son watches the deterioration with fascination and disgust--these are just a few of the characters in these seventeen stories that reveal a dark, satiric view of the human condition that's somehow ferocious and, at times, funny. Shades of Denis Johnson and George Saunders run throughout this potent volume of new...

Shimmering with saturated color and heat, Guide to the Blue Tongue is an intoxicating sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Caliban is the monstrous native, in love with what he cannot possess, lost to his own sense of identity. In Virgil Surez's vision, the island of Caliban's imprisonment merges with the island of Cuba, where the carboneros make charcoal and sell it door-to-door by the pound, young boxers crackle with caged energy, dock workers spill like ants out of the bellies of ships, and the rain...

STYRENE STARS is a model car builders' dream volume. It features 21 of the worlds' best model car builders (and Doctor Cranky himself) telling us a little about themselves and their take on the hobby, and about their top ten favorite car model kits, along with photos of some of their built-up top ten kits. With over 130 full color pages containing more than 175 photos of models, there's plenty of eye candy to fuel and inspire your styrene addiction. This is a must-have volume for your collection LONG LIVE STYRENE