# His Only Son

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- Book: [His Only Son](https://www.bookquiver.com/leopoldo-alas-clarin/his-only-son) ([His Only Son.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/leopoldo-alas-clarin/his-only-son.md))
- Authors: [Leopoldo Alas "Clarín"](https://www.bookquiver.com/leopoldo-alas-clarin), [Margaret Jull Costa](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-jull-costa)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-018-7
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2016-10-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation—and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity—who dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill...