The Room With Closets.The Room With Closets A. Pablo Iannone Vagabond VAGABOND. One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. The ordinances of the French define a vagabond almost in the same terms. Dalloz, Dict. Vagabondage. See Vattel, liv. 1, Sec. 219, n. Press P.O. Box 4830, Austin, TX 78765 097557163X $10.00 512-343-1540 www.vagabondpress.com The Room With Closets by Latin American philosophy teacher A. Pablo Iannone is an anthology of thirteen short stories connected by common threads. With tones ranging from comedy to dark humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was to the shadow of political oppression, the stories range from a woman confronting reminders of death on the first morning of her honeymoon, to a Spanish shepherd who abandons his old identity to sail for the New World, to three Argentines This is a list of Argentines who are famous or notable. Writers
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The Room With Closets by Latin American philosophy teacher A. Pablo Iannone is an anthology of thirteen short stories connected by common threads. With tones ranging from comedy to dark humor to the shadow of political oppression, the stories range from a woman confronting reminders of death on the first morning of her honeymoon, to a Spanish shepherd who abandons his old identity to sail for the New World, to three Argentines who brave a hellish ordeal to obtain a passport from their fascist government. An unforgettable portrait of human struggle, survival, and wry insight. Midwest Book Review, Number 5, Volume 9, September 2006. The Room with Closets received the 2007 Independent Publisher Silver Medal for Multicultural Fiction. There were 2,690 entries in this literary competition from all 50 states and 19 nations. A. Pablo Iannone was born and raised in Argentina, and left his homeland as a result of political upheaval while a university student. He teaches philosophy at Central Connecticut State University, and has published eight books, including Philosophy as Diplomacy, Philosophical Ecologies, and Dictionary of World Philosophy, in addition to several short stories and a book of poetry in Spanish, Astrida. |
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