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Fuentes to read and sign his novel at Wellington Ave. church

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19860824
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Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes will read and sign his novel, The Old Gringo, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Wellington Ave. United Church of Christ, 615 W. Wellington. The book is a Mexican view of American writer Ambrose Bierce, who disappeared in Mexico in 1913. Fuentes is expected to invite questions, presumably about U.S.-Latin American politics.

The author, who calls himself an independent leftist, has been active politically most of his life and controversial enough to be denied visas into the United States.

He stated his position on U.S. intervention in Nicaragua last year in a ...

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