1603059
9781877946691
"Hopes is the name of a Japanese brand of cigarettes favored by the customers of Club Kiki, where the narrator of this stunning first novel, Charlie Dean, works as a hostess....The most remarkable achievement of this highly literate dark comedy...is the character of Charlie herself. She tells her tale with integrity and circumspection, never apologizing..."Alexander, Victoria N. is the author of 'Smoking Hopes', published 1996 under ISBN 9781877946691 and ISBN 1877946699.
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