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As a Spanish cafâe closes for the night, two waiters and a lonely customer confront the concept of nothingness.
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Much-anthologized short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in Scribner's Magazine in March 1933 and later that year in the collection Winner Take Nothing. Late one night two waiters in a cafe wait for their last customer, an old man who has recently attempted suicide, to leave. The younger waiter, eager to get home to his wife, turns the old man out, but the older waiter is sympathetic to the human need for a clean, well-lighted place, an outpost in the darkness. The story is a powerful existential statement about the insufficiency of religion as a source of comfort, and it contains an often cited version of the Lord's Prayer that substitutes the Spanish word nada ("nothing") for most of the prayer's nouns. -- The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature
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A Clean Well-Lighted Place
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Creative Education, Inc, Mankato, MN, 1990
ISBN 10: 0886823455
ISBN 13: 9780886823450
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Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover, 30 pages. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Roberto Innocenti (illustrator). Second Printing. Second Printing. Name written in blue marker on front paste-down. Cloth bound. Light soiling to front board. Gilding on outer spine. Light foxing to inner dust jacket. Light creasing and scuffing to outer dust jacket. Very minor spots/soiling to dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 9021
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A Clean Well Lighted Place
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Seller Inventory # 1764225454