Carlos Fuentes throws his hat in the literary ring with a new collection of short stories redolent with that trademark sting . . .
Nick Rennison: The title and epigraph of Fuentes's book refer to Tolstoy's famous opening sentence in Anna Karenina: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Like Tolstoy himself, he's more interested in the particularities of the unhappy families than he is in the bland indistinguishability of the happy. As Mexico's most internationally admired writer enters his ninth decade, he has lost none of his sting. These are stories that resolutely refuse to charm his readers or to indulge any lingering sentimentality they may possess.
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