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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (P.S.)by: Ben Fountain  List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780060885601 ISBN: 0060885602 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: April 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: April 10, 2007 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - stories of great depth and insightafter reading this wonderful collection i hoped to find other fountain works here. i have a new favorite author. emy in michigan Rating: - The Observant AmericanThe stories in Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain bring us to Haiti, Sierra Leone, 19th century Vienna, and the American south: each place and its people are fully drawn through exact yet nuanced observations, making for excellent reading. The stories are genuine, true, and captivating. Fountain's prose is perfectly created and yet very fluid and natural. I didn't feel I was reading the works of someone trained by a writers' workshop but rather the words of a true writer. Fountain ... Read More Rating:  - Not my favorite by a long shotthis book SUCKS. It was written by a guy in Texas that has never been to south america yet all the stories surround themes of revolution (and dissillusionment of revolution) and south america. This book lacks any real kind of insight (because it is not based on any real kind of truth) and is so obviously steeped in the white eurocentric perspective and relies on all the contrived conventions of modern short stories. Rating: - Pushing the EnvelopeFascinating stories. I really enjoyed this book, partly because I enjoy books that take me to another place or time. The writing was engaging. I had trouble not believing the last story, "Fantasy for Eleven Fingers", wasn't a real account. I will look forward to more books by Ben Fountain and hope he continues to push the envelope. Rating:  - Exotic ficitionI really enjoyed Brief Encounters With Che Guevara by Ben Fountain. The stories take place in exotic locales like Haiti, Columbia, and Myanmar and they all have some sort of epiphany that enlightens the protagonists. Some stories are more compelling than other and Fountain knows more about Haiti, so that country has prominence in being the setting for three of the stories. My favorites were the opening story of the committed bird watcher, "Near-Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera", the story of the ... Read More 
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