Burnt water: Stories by Carlos Fuentes - 1980

231 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter yellow cloth with red lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Urbane stories--almost all set in Mexico City. The weakest tales here simply exploit a single metaphor: in "Chac-Mool," a collector buys a pre-Columbian statue of a god, and the god turns into flesh; in "In a Flemish Garden," a Europeanized house is haunted by the Empress Carlotta. But the strongest of them take on Mexico City's schizoid energy in total. An old bachelor, mother-stifled, lives alone in a crumbling house and keeps to the genteel practices of 30 years before (wakes late, eats in one restaurant, wears spats and a bowler): he's eventually murdered by the street hustlers who are his cultural opposites. "The Two Elenas" portrays a young woman so desperate to be hip and "with-it," decultured, that she becomes a mirror image of herself, her own bouncing infinity. And the final story, "The Son of Andres… Read More

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Book has some some edge wear. Dust jacket has edge/corner wear and is price clipped. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. DJ has mild rubbing/bump to front upper and lower corners. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover..

NY:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0374117411 . Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. First printing. Near fine in a near fine (fading to lettering along the spine), price clipped dust jacket. .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden; 231pp.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. DJ has mild rubbing/bump to front upper and lower corners. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover..

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. (Mexican, short stories, manners and customs )

1980 hardcover stated 1st printing warmly inscribed (which always means to a particular person or, as here, persons) by the author on the ffep in the year of publication. A bit of rubbing on dj (which is now in mylar) , light tanning on flaps and inside of dj, a bit of soil on edge, else fine . DJ is different from the picture, which is of the paper edition .