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If John Wayne Met Franz Kafka

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From: The Texas Observer
Date: 20020524
Author:Anonymous

The Ghost of John Wayne and Other Stories Ray Gonzalez University of Arizona Press 168 pages, $16.95 paper, $29.95 cloth.

Shadows walk away from their owners, a young man awaits a train that may have arrived forty years ago, a terrifying black pig is swept away by a maelstrom. Ray Gonzalez's stories are very strange indeed. On one level, the literal one, they range from the highly implausible to the barely believable, but on another level they are capable of evoking reality without actually embracing it. This enigmatic dream fiction, laced through with dark humor, may leave you feeling as ...

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