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''The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories'' is the title of a short story collection authored by Joe Frank and published in 1993 by William Morrow and Company. It is now out of print, and existing copies are hard to find.
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It contains material from several of Joe's radio programs in short story form, as well as some independent text.
'''''The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories''''' is a short story collection authored by Joe Frank which was published in 1993 by William Morrow and Company. It contains material from several of Joe's radio programs in short story form, as well as some independent text. It is out of print, and copies are hard to find.


== Book Contents ==
== Contents ==
*Tell Me What to Do
*Tell Me What to Do
*Fat Man
*Fat Man
*Night
*Night
*Green Cadillac
*Green Cadillac
*Date
*Date
*The Queen of Puerto Rico
*The Queen of Puerto Rico
*Winter
*Winter
*The Decline of Spengler: A Radio Play


*The Decline of Spengler
== Shared material ==
* "Winter" shares material with the program [[When She's Asleep, She Looks Like An Angel]].  In the printed version, the story is told in the third person, and "she" is replaced by the protagonist's son.


== Interesting Facts ==
== Miscellanea ==
''The Queen Of Puerto Rico'' was reviewed favorably:
* "[A]s Frank proves here, we humans can console ourselves in these dark times with the magic of a story spellbindingly told."<ref>[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joe-frank/the-queen-of-puerto-rico "The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories"]. ''Kirkus Reviews'', October 15, 1993.</ref>
* "Sharply observed and simply told, these are disquieting portraits of desire and unfulfillment."<ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-688-08765-4 "The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories"]. ''Publisher's Weekly'', November 1, 1993.</ref>
* "Mr. Frank ... has a knack for conveying the ironic and the absurd."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/09/books/in-short-fiction.html "The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories"]. Carol Cain Farrington, ''The New York Times'', January 9, 1994.</ref>


*''Winter'' shares material with the radio program, [[When She's Asleep, She Looks Like An Angel]]. In the printed version, the story is told in the third person, and ''she'' is replaced by the protagonist's son.
== External links ==
* ''The Queen of Puerto Rico'' [http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Puerto-Rico-Other-Stories/dp/0688087655/ref=sr_1_1 at Amazon]


== Footnotes ==
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== Commentary ==
[[Category:1993]]
 
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== External Links ==
* ''The Queen of Puerto Rico'' [http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Puerto-Rico-Other-Stories/dp/0688087655/ref=sr_1_1 at Amazon]

Latest revision as of 02:44, 30 March 2021

The Queen Of Puerto Rico
Title
The Queen Of Puerto Rico
Author
Joe Frank
Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Publication Date
1993
ISBN: 9780688087654
Pages: 175
Language: English
Editions 1

The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories is a short story collection authored by Joe Frank which was published in 1993 by William Morrow and Company. It contains material from several of Joe's radio programs in short story form, as well as some independent text. It is out of print, and copies are hard to find.

Contents

  • Tell Me What to Do
  • Fat Man
  • Night
  • Green Cadillac
  • Date
  • The Queen of Puerto Rico
  • Winter
  • The Decline of Spengler: A Radio Play

Shared material

Miscellanea

The Queen Of Puerto Rico was reviewed favorably:

  • "[A]s Frank proves here, we humans can console ourselves in these dark times with the magic of a story spellbindingly told."[1]
  • "Sharply observed and simply told, these are disquieting portraits of desire and unfulfillment."[2]
  • "Mr. Frank ... has a knack for conveying the ironic and the absurd."[3]

External links

Footnotes

    1. ↑ "The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories". Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 1993.
    2. ↑ "The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories". Publisher's Weekly, November 1, 1993.
    3. ↑ "The Queen of Puerto Rico and Other Stories". Carol Cain Farrington, The New York Times, January 9, 1994.
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