PORTUGUESE IN THE AMERICAS SERIES 19

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© 2012 Darrell Kastin
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General Editor: Frank F. Sousa
Managing Editor: Mario Pereira
Copyedited by Peter Fong

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The author would like to thank the
editors of the following magazines and
journals, in which some of these stories
first appeared: Berkeley Fiction Review; Blue
Mesa Review; Crescent Review; Gávea-Brown:
A Bilingual Journal of Portuguese-American
Letters and Studies; Magic Realism; Margin:
Exploring Magical Realism; NEO Magazine;
Seattle Review; and Sulphur River
Literary Review.

Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kastin, Darrell.
The conjurer and other Azorean tales /
Darrell Kastin.
p.           cm.—(Portuguese in the
Americas series; 19)
ISBN 978-1-933227-41-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)—
ISBN 978-1-933227-42-9 (ebook)
1. Azores—Fiction. 2. Magic realism
(Literature) I. Title.
PS3611.A787C66 2012
813’.6—dc23                 2012016945