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  • The Spanish Teacher
    Barbara de la Cuesta
    Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award'...De la Cuesta’s novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader’s attention not only through the forceful figure of Ordóñez, but by demonstrating acutely how ordinary lives are impacted by the underlying social and political landscape. Compelling reading.'-Tom Tolnay, publisher,Birch Brook Press and author of Selling Ameri...
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    10,90 €

  • Rosa The Driftless Unsolicited Novella Series
    Barbara de la Cuesta
    'There were little sins and big sins, and if you committed too many little sins you were more likely to go on to the big ones. Some sins you did in your mind and then, sometimes, you went on to let yourself fall into them.' Darkly witty and compulsively readable, Barbara de la Cuesta’s novella lets us into the private life and secret thoughts of Rosa, an undocumented home healt...
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    12,01 €

  • Adam’s Chair
    Barbara de la Cuesta
    Adam’s Chair is a narrative of one day in 1981 in Waltham Massachusetts. The shuttle, Columbia, orbits above. An elderly French Canadian escapes his sleeping wife and makes his way to Mt. Feake Cemetery before dawn, whose neighborhoods reflect the city’s own, its waves of immigration. Priscilla, a home health aide, college dropout, and socialist since she turned sixteen, rides ...
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    14,36 €

  • My Name is Henrietta Rose
    Barbara de la Cuesta
    Once a famous hostess in foreign capitals, Henrietta Rose, felled by drink loses family and health and ends up in a HUD subsidized apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts. Despite her losses she is presently giddily sober in the basements of AA and sets about a series of dinner parties to recover her lost family. Henrietta Rose is part of a trio of novels set in the city of Waltham...
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    24,80 €

  • The Mists
    Barbara de la Cuesta
    Barbara de la Cuesta’s novella, The Mists, is a fascinating read. The characters are pulled into the midst of conflict and self awareness in the misty mountains of Central America. The reader is whole-heartedly pulled into the minds and hearts of de la Cuesta’s characters.     -Leah Huete de Maines ...
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    23,63 €

  • On the River This Morning
    Barbara de la Cuesta
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    17,15 €

  • Rosa
    Barbara de la Cuesta
    "There were little sins and big sins, and if you committed too many little sins you were more likely to go on to the big ones. Some sins you did in your mind and then, sometimes, you went on to let yourself fall into them."Darkly witty and compulsively readable, Barbara de la Cuesta's novella lets us into the private life and secret thoughts of Rosa, an undocumented home he...
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    10,89 €

  • Rosamundo
    Barbara de la Cuesta
     In this narrative prose poem, Priscilla, home health aide, college dropout, social activist, sets out to work on her bicycle at dawn.  Passing the old woolen mill, she meditates on the city’s history and her family’s part in its founding. As she visits her clients in their apartments, the space shuttle Columbia orbits above, sending down messages, the mayor visits the Sunshine...
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    22,61 €

  • Carl, Willi, and Blanche
    Barbara de la Cuesta
    Praise for Barbara de la Cuesta's previous novel, The Spanish Teacher, winner of the Gival Press Novel Prize... 'The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you—pace, a great balance of description, gesture and action, charmed, perfectly tuned dialogue, and most notably, a character we follow as closely and sympathetically as if we were living right...
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    15,39 €

  • Henrietta Rose
    Barbara de la Cuesta
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    10,89 €