The Tortilla Curtain
T.C. Boyle's tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream A masterpiece of contemporary social satire. -The Wall Street JournalTopanga 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 immigrants 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 C…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-04260-1
- EAN: 9781101042601
- Produktnummer: 17987337
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'421 KB
Über den Autor
T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.
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