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Modelo antiguo

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"Engaging, idiomatic translation of Modelo antiguo (1992) is first translation into English of work by Mexican playwright, script writer, and novelist Reyes. In this novel, his first-person narrator, a taxi driver, is hired by a fatally ill old woman who …

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"Engaging, idiomatic translation of Modelo antiguo (1992) is first translation into English of work by Mexican playwright, script writer, and novelist Reyes. In this novel, his first-person narrator, a taxi driver, is hired by a fatally ill old woman who wants to be driven around Mexico City so she can die in her car. No ancillary information"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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