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        C.M. Mayo's SKY OVER EL NIDO: STORIES

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    Now in paperback

    SKY OVER
    EL NIDO

    FLANNERY
    O'CONNOR AWARD
    FOR SHORT FICTION




    Many
    of the stories in Sky Over El Nido are set in Mexico— but nowhere near the gringo's manana-land
    of mariachis and margaritas.

    
"Mayo's work is reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor's.
And like that old master, Mayo is addictive and her 
collection has a unity that is very satifying." 
Booklist

    
Available from
    fine bookstores throughout the U.S.

    (and also in many English-language bookstores in Mexico.) 

    To order a copy, click
    here.

    .

    To
    order directly from the publisher, University of Georgia Press,
    click here

    
"A
    remarkable literary debut... tautly fashioned prose, alive with
    myriad turns of phrase as on-target as they are idiosyncratic."


    Publisher's
    Weekly (starred
    review)


    
"hauntingly,
    humorously beautiful" 

    Austin
    Chronicle


    
"some
    of the most exquisitely fashioned, perfectly measured prose alive
    in the world today." 

    Naomi
    Shihab Nye



    "The
    haywire circuits of our whole electrically but not ethically
    connected global village stand exposed in Mayo's work. Sky
    Over El Nido won the 1995 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short
    Fiction. 

    I am not surprised."

    David
    Toolan, S.J., Commonweal



    "Sky
    Over El Nido is a breath-taking first collection... These
    stories are vibrant, strange, loaded with off-beat humor, exquisite
    detail, and delivered with near-perfect pitch. Sky Over El
    Nido shimmers with life."

    The
    Virginia Quarterly Review





    Sky
    Over El Nido

    (and five other new stories) 

    traducido por Agustin Cadena

    El
    cielo de El Nido

    Grupo Planeta Mexico

    Click
    on the cover to read more





    
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