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Reviewed on September 15, 2016 | Fiction
Writing in the tradition of William Faulkner and John Dos Passos, Saccomanno, winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Prize for noir fiction, exposes the secret life of a seaside resort town south of Buenos Aires, after the tourists have left. The one-way mirror in a Gesell dome that lets researchers watch people acting unawares is the metaphor here for readers observing the vagaries of the locals during the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More