Chuck Wachtel

• Nov-1994
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The award-winning author of Joe the Engineer sets his new novel in New York City and war-torn Nicaragua. Primo Thomas, who teaches English to immigrants, faces the second half of his life. Primo's story is one of desire, of struggle, and of a journey...

• Nov-1994
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Joe once dreamed of being an engineer, but at 27, he is a Vietnam vet, husband, meter reader, and resident of the same Queens neighborhood in which he was born and raised. Caught between the absurdity of life and his need to be significant, Joe striv...

• May-1996
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• 2000
• / General Fiction
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Poetry. Chuck Wachtel's WHAT HAPPENS TO ME is revelatory, not only in its lyrical clarity and knowledge, but also in its experimental and elliptical compression in poetry and short prose --Yusef Komunyakaa. This observant, dreamy, pungent collection ...

• Jul-2010
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. "Part love song, part lamentation, Chuck Wachtel's 3/03 calls to mind the work of generous, lyrical moralists from Walter Benjamin to Grace Paley. It's a beautiful, immensely serious, immensely tender portrait of the way we live now"--Brian ...