London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Uncorrected Proof; First Printing. Paperback. Light shelf wear to unclipped DJ stapled to soft cover, some foxing to edges of reading block. ; Uncorrected Proof. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread. DJ photo by David Thompson. ; 368 pages; Until he hit the shabby Mexican pedestrian with his shiney Japanese car, Delaney Mossbacher liked to think his liberal humanist values were as unblemished as his driving record. But he didn't report the accident, or take Candido Rincon to hospital, just gave the man twenty dollars and headed back to his Californian fortress home, yet he could not get the image of the Mexican out of his mind. Meanwhile Candido staggered down into the canyon to his pregnant seventeen-year-old wife in search of the American Dream... .

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The Tortilla Curtain (1995) is a novel by U.S. author T.C. Boyle about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. Of the eleven novels Boyle has written so far, The Tortilla Curtain has turned out to be his most successful.

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Seller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Seller's Inventory #: 29651
Title: The Tortilla Curtain
Author: Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: Uncorrected Proof; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0747523525
ISBN 13: 9780747523529
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1995
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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