The Palace of the White Skunks"Story of Fortunato, a dreamy, sullen boy trapped in a house full of abandoned aunts in a decrepit backwater. Tormented by sexual desires for both men and women, he hears, in the pauses in his family's quarrels, the crackle of rebel gunfire a sound that will beckon him into a world as demented as the one he has sworn to escape."--Page 4 of cover |
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... leaving if I have to starve to death on the road . It's still early . I'd better wait to leave till the whole neigh- borhood's asleep , because otherwise everybody'll start asking me where I'm going with a suitcase at this hour , and it ...
... leaving if I have to starve to death on the road . It's still early . I'd better wait to leave till the whole neigh- borhood's asleep , because otherwise everybody'll start asking me where I'm going with a suitcase at this hour , and it ...
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... leave . But no - he hasn't seen me and he's not paying me the slightest bit of attention . He just keeps talking ... LEAVING CUBA ? WHO ARE YOU LEAVING IN 96.
... leave . But no - he hasn't seen me and he's not paying me the slightest bit of attention . He just keeps talking ... LEAVING CUBA ? WHO ARE YOU LEAVING IN 96.
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... leaving , I'm leaving , I'm leaving I'm leaving I'm leaving I'mleavingI'mleavingI'mleavingI'm . . . This time I'm leaving . You want to bet ? You'll see ! " How inconsiderate ! The crackers we all have to eat . That was for us all . Get ...
... leaving , I'm leaving , I'm leaving I'm leaving I'm leaving I'mleavingI'mleavingI'mleavingI'm . . . This time I'm leaving . You want to bet ? You'll see ! " How inconsiderate ! The crackers we all have to eat . That was for us all . Get ...
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