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Guanacaste Snapshots

Guanacaste Snapshots

Guanacaste Snapshots

Susan Gordon

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iUniverse
Año de edición:
2004
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Biografía: general
ISBN:
9780595321193
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Like the mirror chips in a rotating ball, these stories provide images of the shifting realities of a small world, Tempira, Guanacaste, before it became the trendy vacation destination and retirement paradise it is today.Delight in these intimate word portraits which paint honest, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes painful views of the human ironies and contradictions in relationships and experiences with people in the same community over a twenty-year period. The author was not a visitor in Costa Rica. It was her home.

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