The Tortilla Curtain Paperback - 1996
by T. C. Boyle
From the author of The Road to Wellville comes his most controversial novel yet--a deeply moving story of the men and women who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American dream. "Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel".--The Boston Globe.
Summary
Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
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- Title The Tortilla Curtain
- Author T. C. Boyle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1996-09-01
- ISBN 9780140238280 / 014023828X
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.78 x 5.07 x 0.72 in (19.76 x 12.88 x 1.83 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1210
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Married people - California - Los Angeles -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95001970
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times, 12/08/1996, Page 101
- Publishers Weekly, 07/22/1996, Page 0
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