THE TORTILLA CURTAIN: A Novel by Boyle, T. Coraghessan - 1995

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking., 1995. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. THE TORTILLA CURTAIN is the rich and deeply moving story of the good and not so good, the haves and have-nots. Men and women with brown faces and strong backs who risk everything 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. At the top of Topanga Canyon, 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. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, the two couples and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding. Told from these characters' shifting viewpoints, THE TORTILLA CURTAIN unfolds a story at once taut and gripping, intimate and transcendent. By the author of THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE, EAST IS EAST, RIVEN ROCK, and WORLD'S END, as well as WITHOUT A HERO, and three other collections of short stories. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1995. As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L16