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Homunculus
An American expatriate community in a small Mexican town consists of would-be-artists/composers/retirees/writers who share a common bond of booze and sexual desires while they stumble and fumble in their quests to find satisfaction. It's a tale told with tension, wit, and a compassion for the drifters, losers, and boozers that Bukowski and Kerouac embraced decades ago.
285 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2000
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Robert Wintner
24 books16 followersRobert Wintner has authored 15 novels, 3 memoirs, 3 story collections and 5 reef photo books. Robert Wintner is the nom de plume of Snorkel Bob, Hawaii’s biggest reef outfitter. He lives on Maui with his wife Anita, Cookie the dog, Rocky, Yoyo, Inez, Buck, Tootsie, and Coco the cats, and Elizabeth the chicken. His novels and stories are adventures, meant to record and entertain with insight.
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June 26, 2019
Ho-hum. Expats getting drunk and screwing in some remote mountain town in Mexico.
It starts to get decent in the last third or so, once it moves on from "hey, here's a more-typical-than-funny bar story" to some perfunctory character development.
Wintner is a keen observer and a decent writer; he just doesn't seem to have a whole lot to write about.
It starts to get decent in the last third or so, once it moves on from "hey, here's a more-typical-than-funny bar story" to some perfunctory character development.
Wintner is a keen observer and a decent writer; he just doesn't seem to have a whole lot to write about.
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