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Fiction | January 01, 1983

from Dead Sea

Jorge Amado

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Night was running ahead of itself. People weren’t expecting it at all when it fell upon the city with heavy clouds. The lights on the docks hadn’t been turned on yet; in the Beacon of the Stars sad bulbs illuminated the glasses of cane liguor;many sloops were still cutting the waters of the sea when the wind brought on a night of black clouds.

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winter 1983

6.2 (Winter 1983)

Featuring work by Jorge Amado, Marvin Bell, Jeanne Bernhard, Michael Blumenthal, Don Bogen, Sidney Burris, Francois Camoin, Deborah Digges, Jack Hand, Jack Heflin, Lois Lindblad, Patrick Madden, Thomas McAfee, James McCorkle, Colleen J. McElroy, Martha McFerren, Kent Nelson, David St. John, Gregory Orr, Michael Pettit, David Ray, Peggy Shumaker, Ben Siegel, Jim Simmerman, Volodia Teitelboim, William Trowbridge, James Ulmer, Michael Waters, Gloria Whelan, Wendy Wieber… and an interview with Harry Crews.

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