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"Because behind him, at the foot of a fence post, with his legs higher than his body, caught in a wire fence, his beloved son, dead since ten o'clock in the morning, likes in the sun."

Horacio Quiroga the Last Line of in The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

Originally Published Jan. 1, 1976

Paperback edition:

166 pages - June 15, 2004