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**“An inventive and utterly refreshing masterwork. As always, Lopez writes with precision, menace, blazing wit, and a relentless devotion to the absurdity of life.”**—Kimberly King Parsons, author of We Were the UniverseCompleting his celebrated novels-in-stories triptych, begun with Good People and A Better Class of People, Robert Lopez delivers the third installment, The Best People, which ... Read more

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Good People

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Lopez has the ability to give the reader whiplash with his unconventional and bewitching stories.” -Los Angeles TimesRobert Lopez is the master of deadpan dread, of the elliptical koan, of the sudden turn of language that reveals life to be so wonderfully absurd. Always with Lopez, the voice is all his-enchanting, surprising, at times devastating.” -JESS WALTER, author of Beautiful RuinsRobert ... Read more

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by Robert Lopez ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Mason G ...

Unabridged

3 hours 30 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.You could believe that you must grant everyone's demands. You could discover that you're quick to blame people for your own troubles and sentiments. Another possibility is that you put so much emphasis on being kind and selfless that you lose sight of your own limitations. Perhaps it's any or all of the following.We live in a society where everyone has ... Read more

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All Back Full

by Robert Lopez ...

Act One: At a kitchen table, a husband and wife discuss the news, nudists, and lie to each other about the ways they no longer connect.Act Two: At a kitchen table, a man and his friend discuss the weather, the state of public transportation, and lie to each other for the sake of something to say.Act Three: At a kitchen table, three people discuss, mostly, nothing, and watch the threads unravel as ... Read more

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Act One: At a kitchen table, a husband and wife discuss the news, nudists, and lie to each other about the ways they no longer connect.Act Two: At a kitchen table, a man and his friend discuss the weather, the state of public transportation, and lie to each other for the sake of something to say.Act Three: At a kitchen table, three people discuss, mostly, nothing, and watch the threads unravel as
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Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere

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by Robert Lopez ...

That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no accident. My grandparents made conscious decisions and so did my father as part of the first generation born here in the States. And none of it bothered me until recently, which is probably why I can’t quite put my finger on any of this. I’m still grappling with what I’ve lost and how I can miss ... Read more

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Robert Lopez has collected 29 short stories running from the very short on up to efforts that might be considered standard story length, plus a novella in shorts to close out the book. Like his previous works, Asunder is a study in the usage of language. Lopez carefully considers each word before leaving it on the page, and it shows. ... Read more

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A Better Class of People

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A brilliant novel-in-stories from award-winning author Robert LopezIn an uncanny, distorted version of New York City, a man rides the subway through the chaos of an ordinary commute. He may have a gun in his pocket. He may be looking for someone—a woman named Esperanza.Between stops, we shuttle back and forth through time and see a man who stands in traffic, the same man seizing and shuddering on ... Read more

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Kamby Bolongo Mean River

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Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Robert Lopez’s hypnotic second novel, is the story of a young man whofinds himself confined and under observation, the subject of seemingly pointless tests. His only link to the outside world is a telephone that will not dial out. During the occasional calls he receives, usually wrong numbers, the narrator remembers his former life growing up in Injury, Alaska with his ... Read more

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The Almighty Chooses Fallible Mortals to Write, Edit, and Translate GodStory

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An award-winning western novelist (NORTH TO YESTERDAY, WANDERER SPRINGS) with decidedly liberal political leanings writes a spiritual autobiography unlike any other. The author grew up in a small west Texas town, attended seminary, became a war correspondent in Vietnam, and taught creative writing and literature for 40 years at Trinity University in San Antonio. With a deep sense of the irony of ... Read more

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Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere

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by Robert Lopez ...

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Robert Lopez's grandfather Sixto was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1904, immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, where he lived in a racially proportioned apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn, until his death in 1987. The family's efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations ... Read more

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Robert Lopez's grandfather Sixto was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1904, immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, where he lived in a racially proportioned apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn, until his death in 1987. The family's efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations
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