The Tortilla Curtain - Brossura

Boyle, T.C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 014023828X ISBN 13: 9780140238280

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1996

Riassunto

While leading their lives in their gated hilltop community in Los Angeles, Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher accidently meet Mexican illegal aliens Ca+a7ndido and Ame+a7rica Rinco+a7n, and their encounter brings them together in a relationship of error and misunderstanding. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"A compelling story of myopic misunderstanding and mutual tragedy."
--Chicago Tribune

"Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel . . . A book to appreciate as we peer at the faces of strangers outside our windows, and wall ourselves in."
--The Boston Globe 

"Lays on the line of our national cult of hypocrisy. Comically and painfully he details the smug wastefulness of the haves and the vile misery of the have-nots."
--Barbara Kingsolver, The Nation

L'autore:

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer.  Since the late 1970s, he has published sixteen novels, most recently The Terranauts and The Harder They Come, and ten collections of short stories.  He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995; his 2003 novel Drop City was a finalist for the National Book Award.  His honors include the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing, and the Rea Award for the Short Story.  He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 014023828X
• ISBN 13: 9780140238280
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 368