DESERTED CITIES OF THE HEART

by Lewis Shiner

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Doubleday, 1988 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. DESERTED CITIES OF THE HEART 1988 , set in a magic-realist Mexico, features a complexity of plots, involving imagined time travel back to the age of the Mayas, heated sexual and political intertwinings, and moments of not entirely convinced transcendence; but the style of the tale is shining and faceted, and its various

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