The Queen Of Puerto Rico (Book)

The Queen of Puerto Rico jacket illustration, by Christopher Zacharow

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

• "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.

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."
• "Sharply observed and simply told, these are disquieting portraits of desire and unfulfillment."
• "Mr. Frank ... has a knack for conveying the ironic and the absurd."

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External links

• The Queen of Puerto Rico at Amazon