The Stars Above Veracruz

By Barry Gifford

Book Overview

As author Barry Gifford was writing these pieces, he gradually came to realize that what he was creating was a geographical fiction, or a geography of fictions. As Barry explains, "Everybody has a story, no matter where they are in the world, and I conceived the device of The Ropedancer when I was in Veracruz, Mexico, at a hotel much like the Hotel Los Regalos de Dios, where the former funambulist, whom I call The Ropedancer, took up residence following the demise of the Dancing Ciegas, whoplunged to their deaths from a high wire." Many of these stories are tragic, some humorous, but all told by individuals in the confessional mode which is often the posture assumed by persons adrift in a foreign land and who find themselves not uncomfortably in conversation late at night with a stranger.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560258071
• ISBN13: 9781560258070
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher