Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, Ben Fountain
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, Ben Fountain
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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
Stories

Author: Ben Fountain

Narrator: Christian Baskous

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/01/2013

Synopsis

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.

About Ben Fountain

Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country of eastern North Carolina. A former practicing attorney, he is the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Billy Lynn was adapted into a feature film directed by three-time Oscar winner Ang Lee, and his work has been translated into over twenty languages. His series of essays published in The Guardian on the 2016 U.S. presidential election was subsequently nominated by the editors of The Guardian for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. He lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife of 32 years, Sharon Fountain.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara is a 2006 collection of eight brilliant short stories by Ben Fountain, author of the wonderful novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk. Brief Encounters established Fountain’s reputation as a writer to watch, earning him a PEN Award, a Whiting Writers Award, an O He......more

Goodreads review by J.L.

“She couldn't save them, she couldn't save anyone but herself, which made her presence here the worst sort of self-indulgence, her mission a long-running fantasy.” The characters in Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters with Che Guevara find themselves in places of social upheaval, places where they are ca......more

Goodreads review by Always

I usually don't enjoy short story collections because a lot of them aren't very good but this one was so well written, I really enjoyed it. There were only two I didn't like very much, the third and the last one, but even then the writing was very good, it just came down to personal preferences. All......more

Goodreads review by HBalikov

I would have preferred the title: Most Everything You Care to Know about People You’ve Rarely Thought About but were Afraid to Ask……then again, it’s probably obvious why I don’t write titles for a living. Mastering the short story is a talent few writers excel at. Ben Fountain is one of them. Brief En......more

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