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Examples
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He has a scar and a tattoo of hte name "Altamirano" on his right forearm.
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Altamirano describes himself as a "Historian of Parallel Lives," but he frequently loops away from the narrative's main tracks.
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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The great author's life is juxtaposed with that of our narrator, José Altamirano, the tandem forming "two incarnations of the same Joe."
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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Altamirano describes himself as a "Historian of Parallel Lives," but he frequently loops away from the narrative's main tracks.
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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Altamirano's father, it turns out, was a devout materialist and propagandist for the Panama Canal project; he died of disappointment when early attempts to build the canal were sunk by ineptitude and yellow fever.
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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The great author's life is juxtaposed with that of our narrator, José Altamirano, the tandem forming "two incarnations of the same Joe."
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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Conrad's youth is misspent at sea he was, in this telling, a layabout and gambler, an attempted suicide at 21, while Altamirano stays landlocked with his wife and daughter.
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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With this cautionary example, Altamirano tries toshield the members of his family from Colombia's unending upheavals "the regular massacre of compatriots is our version of the changing of the guard", but the whirlwind of war eventually finds them all.
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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Altamirano's father, it turns out, was a devout materialist and propagandist for the Panama Canal project; he died of disappointment when early attempts to build the canal were sunk by ineptitude and yellow fever.
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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Conrad's youth is misspent at sea he was, in this telling, a layabout and gambler, an attempted suicide at 21, while Altamirano stays landlocked with his wife and daughter.
A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011
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