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The Tortilla Curtainby Boyle, T. C
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Book DescriptionNew York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1995. A very nice copy, in protedtive dust jacket cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book summaryTwo diametrically opposed couples meet--or rather, collide--in this tragi-comedy of coincidence and error. One couple--a Thoreau-esque nature writer and a rabid realtor, both L.A. liberals--lead fairly conventional 90s lives, while the other couple--two hungry illegal Mexican immigrants--scratch out an existence in a dwelling held together with spit. Told from each of their view-points, the narrative unravels to reveal an American crisis of identity.Media Reviews"Mr. Boyle deftly portrays Los Angeles's Topanga Canyon, catching both its privileged society and its underlying geological and ecological instability... a political novel for an age that has come to distrust not only politicians but political solutions, a modernist muckraking novel by an author who sees the muck not only in class structure and prejudice but in the souls of human beings." -- Scott Spencer, New York Times Book Review "Boyle's settings are always vivid, and here once again he shows a sharpshooter's accuracy for details." -- Donna Rifkind, Washington Post Book World First LineAfterward, he tried to reduce it to abstract terms, an accident in a world of accidents, the collision of opposing forces--the bumper of his car and the frail scrambling hunched-over form of a dark little man with a wild look in his eye--but he wasn't very successful. Publisher NotesTimeless, yet passionately of our time, THE TORTILLA CURTAIN is the rich and deeply moving story of the good and not so good, the haves an have-nots. Men an women with brown faces and strong backs who risk everthing to cross the Mexican border and invade the American Dream are the Okies of the 1990s. Two of them, Candido and America Rincon, have come to Southern California and are living in a makeshift camp deep in a ravine, fighting off starvation. Other Recommended Books
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