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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Page 71
... town is hard . I had never lived in town but I knew it was hard because I had seen a lot of my cousins , the girls , turn to whoring to make a living . Or to not die of hunger , is more like it . Life in town is hard . At least up there ...
... town is hard . I had never lived in town but I knew it was hard because I had seen a lot of my cousins , the girls , turn to whoring to make a living . Or to not die of hunger , is more like it . Life in town is hard . At least up there ...
Page 111
... town . This town . If the world were a backside , you'd be the asshole of it . Better than three hours since a soul set foot in this fruit stand to buy so much as a slice of wrapped day - old poundcake . With today's sales I couldn't ...
... town . This town . If the world were a backside , you'd be the asshole of it . Better than three hours since a soul set foot in this fruit stand to buy so much as a slice of wrapped day - old poundcake . With today's sales I couldn't ...
Page 274
... town . Because at least the ones in the Sierra are safer ; those of us who stay behind down here are apt to find the militia coming in the door any time of day or night and wiping us out . Look what happened the last time they came ...
... town . Because at least the ones in the Sierra are safer ; those of us who stay behind down here are apt to find the militia coming in the door any time of day or night and wiping us out . Look what happened the last time they came ...
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