Name: First Confession By Montserrat Fontes
SKU: 9780393308471
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First Confession by Montserrat Fontes

Two spoiled children, the willful Andrea and her cousin Victor, take up spying and stealing when they discover where the town hooker hides her money. Their theft tragically unleashes a series of events, among them murder and suicide.

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Through the eyes of [the] small heroine, a wicked but touchingly vulnerable little girl . . . First Confession enjoys a robust plot and multidimensional characters. . . . Fontes's greatest talent, though, is her ability to see and define the world through the senses of a child. -- Philadelphia Inquirer
Simmering first novel. . . . Writing with a vivid sense of character, class, culture, and place, Fontes has produced a novel as nasty, compelling and horrendous as childhood itself. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Montserrat Fontes has listened to the rhythms that connect two languages, and divined a voice like nothing I've read before: Carson McCullers with a Spanish accent. First Confession invited me into the rich, dark place where life reveals itself to wide-eyed children, and it kept talking to me for a long time after I'd turned the final page. -- Barbara Kingsolver
A splendid tour de force. I picked the book up and could not put it down. . . . She renders the border-life in all its stark and realistic darkness. . . . The children, Andrea and Victor, are alive and full of light, carrying in their hearts a bit of each of us. -- Jimmy Santiago Boca

About Montserrat Fontes

Montserrat Fontes is a novelist and screenwriter. She currently lives in the Greater Los Angeles area.

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CIN0393308472A

ISBN 13

9780393308471

ISBN 10

0393308472

Title

First Confession by Montserrat Fontes

Author

Montserrat Fontes

Condition

Used - Well Read

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

19920612

Number of pages

320

Prizes

N/A

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Note

This is a used book. We do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, but there is no escaping the fact that it has been owned and read by someone else previously. Therefore it will show signs of wear and may be an ex library book

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