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    Short Description for Alex Y Robert In 1959, two famous Spanish matadors, who were best friends, died. This title is a modern fable of their grandchildren: Alejandra, a young American woman determined to become a matador, and Roberto, a reluctant star Spanish bullfighter whom she recruits to help her.
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    Title
    Alex Y Robert
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Wena Poon
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 307
    Width: 129 mm
    Height: 198 mm
    Thickness: 19 mm
    Weight: 480 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781907773082
    ISBN 10: 1907773088
    Classifications
    Dewey: 813.6
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BISAC category code: FIC000000
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Publisher
    Salt Publishing
    Imprint name
    Salt Publishing
    Publication date
    12 August 2010
    Publication City/Country
    Cambridge/GB
    Review quote
    "Robert drags bullfighting kicking and screaming into the 21st century, wonderfully evoking the smells and sounds of the ring in cold, pithy prose. An original and fascinating glimpse into other worlds", STAV SHEREZ. "Wena Poon is one of the most exciting fiction writers to come out of America in the last few years", BIDISHA. "A more talented, nay gifted, original, authentic and compelling contemporary storyteller than Wena it would be hard to name", PAUL BLEZARD.
    Biographical note
    Wena Poon is a Singapore-born American author whose work has appeared in print, radio and film. Winner of the 2010 Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize in England, twice longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in Ireland, and nominated for the Singapore Literature Prize and the Malaysia Popular Readers' Choice Award, Poon is the author of "Alex y Robert","The Proper Care of Foxes", and "Lions In Winter". She also writes a sci-fi action-adventure novel series, the first four volumes of which are collected in "The Biophilia Omnibus", which was voted Best Book Gift of the Year by CNN Singapore. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, and a practising lawyer, she lives in San Francisco and Austin.
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    Wena Poon crosses the cultural -- and spiritual -- divide with wit, pathos and resolute bravura. -- Rosalind Porter Granta The exile returns to illuminate an intimate part of Singapore, and does so quite beautifully. -- Neel Chowdhury Time In a new century of Google Earth, YouTube and endless connectivity, her characters prove that what moves us and makes us human remains as compellingly simple -- and fleeting -- as ever. -- Alison MacLeod Author of 'Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction' Perfectly structured and viscerally imagined, "Alex y Robert" drags bullfighting kicking and screaming into the 21st century, wonderfully evoking the smells and sounds of the ring in cold, pithy prose. An original and fascinating glimpse into other worlds. -- Stav Sherez Wena Poon is one of the most exciting fiction writers to come out of America in the last few years. -- Bidisha A more talented, nay gifted, original, authentic and compelling contemporary storyteller than Wena it would be hard to name. -- Paul Blezard
    Table of contents
    ACT ONE The Act of the Spears ACT TWO The Act of the Colorful Darts ACT THREE The Act of the Kill EPILOGUE Acknowledgments