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Labels and Other Stories
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I'm not going to give this an overall rating as I found the quality of the stories to be extremely variable, at least in so far as they held my interest. As a general rule of thumb, I found the South American ones to be of least interest, whereas the more contemporary ones I enjoyed more. Funnily enough I only just realised, by employing the word 'contemporary' in that previous sentence, that I do in fact think of the South American stories to be set in the imprecisely-defined past, somewhere mid-20th century (at the latest), although I'm not certain that's ever made explicit in the text.
Anyway, there are a couple of real gems here (my favourites being 'Romance on the Underground' and 'The Deposit'), half a dozen good ones, and a few clunkers. Worth a read, though, especially for the gems.
Anyway, there are a couple of real gems here (my favourites being 'Romance on the Underground' and 'The Deposit'), half a dozen good ones, and a few clunkers. Worth a read, though, especially for the gems.
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“The world is bulging with desirable women, as you have no doubt noticed already, but there are some who have a special presence, as if the space they occupy has more intrinsic depth and reality than that of others. These ones are surreptitiously incandescent, they glow with an invisible light reminiscent of mountains, shortly after dawn, in a tropical land. When I encounter one of these, it is like being in a clearing in the Amazon when a jaguar strolls past, sniffing the air, or like going to the front of a boat, looking down into the water, and seeing dolphins curvetting across the bows.”
― Labels and Other Stories
― Labels and Other Stories
