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      A Pause in the Desert

      by Oliver La Farge
      Published
      May 2009
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      276
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      Oliver La Farge covers many aspects of everyday life in these sixteen stories, which range from an old man facing death alone in the Mexican bush to some boys facing the responsibilities of life at St. Peter's school; from the science fiction world of computing machines to the world of gourmets; and from the violent death of a man off the Rhode Island coast to the quiet death of a marriage in New Mexico.

      The variety of stories in this wide-ranging collection are sure to fit the taste and mood and any reader interested in the human condition through the clear grace of La Farge's timeless writing.

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      First Edition May 2009 Sunstone Press ISBN 0865346771
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      May 2009 -- Not Selected ISBN B09C12S38G
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