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Le rideau de tortilla par T. Coraghessan Boyle

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Caractéristiques de l'objet

État
Bon: Un livre qui a été lu, mais qui est en bon état. La couverture présente des dommages infimes, ...
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Intended Audience
Adult
Inscribed
NO
ISBN
014023828X
Book Title
Tortilla Curtain
Item Length
7.8in
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year
1996
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6in
Author
T.C. Boyle
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Urban, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General, Humorous / General
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Number of Pages
368 Pages

À propos de ce produit

Product Information

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 Journal 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 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 Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
014023828x
ISBN-13
9780140238280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038260456

Product Key Features

Book Title
Tortilla Curtain
Author
T.C. Boyle
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Urban, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General, Humorous / General
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.0932t67 1995
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Grade to
Up
Reviews
"A compelling story of myopic misunderstanding and mutual tragedy." -- Chicago Tribune "Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel . . . A book to appreciate as we peer at the faces of strangers outside our windows, and wall ourselves in." -- The Boston Globe "Lays on the line of our national cult of hypocrisy. Comically and painfully he details the smug wastefulness of the haves and the vile misery of the have-nots." --Barbara Kingsolver, The Nation, "A compelling story of myopic misunderstanding and mutual tragedy." -- Chicago Tribune "Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel . . . A book to appreciate as we peer at the faces of strangers outside our windows, and wall ourselves in." -- The Boston Globe  "Lays on the line of our national cult of hypocrisy. Comically and painfully he details the smug wastefulness of the haves and the vile misery of the have-nots." --Barbara Kingsolver, The Nation
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
95-001970
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20

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  • great book

    "The Tortilla Curtain" is 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. Yet where the socially engaged novel once offered critique, Mr. Boyle provides contempt -- even poor Candido, whose plight has been engaging our sympathies throughout this novel, is eventually seen "weaving his way through the scrub, drawn like an insect to the promise of distant lights." Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch. Despite his celebrated gifts, T. Coraghessan Boyle may be the most ...

  • A must read and very timely!!!!

    If you want to read a book, that is excellently written, by a quality writer, this is the book for you. If you want to feel the disparity between people of means and those that have nothing, you must read this book. It is human, intelligent, both sides are presented so very well, it is heart wrenching, heart breaking, and at the same time heart warming. For any one that is interested in the life of the Mexican illegal couple and what they have to go through to make a "living," and the absolute hypocrisy of a "liberal" who lives in the hills, and when threatened becomes a great American offender!!! It is a highly recommended book...it is not easy to go through, as it is hard to look at the suffering and the bigotry...but it is a must read for our times!

  • A Thought-Provoking Book

    My husband ordered this book for me for my book club. It was the first book I read in a long time that I felt compelled to discuss with my husband as I was reading it. It is about the disparity between a wealthy white couple in California and a dirt-poor Mexican couple and begins when the 2 men meet by "accident"--the white man runs down the Mexican man with his car and offers him $20 "for his trouble". There are other meetings between the 2 men throughout the book. It is a study in racism from both points of view.

  • Tortilla Pain

    I bought Tortilla Curtain because my book club is reading it. I have read other T. C. Boyle books and liked them. What I remember of his other books is that he is a genius as interspersing human tragedy with absurdity. Tortilla curtain is all the tragedy and none of the absurdity. The book is extremely well written and literate but I can only describe it as painful. It just flows from one tragedy to the next. The connections between the lives of the characters is amazing, but get out a hankie, or the valium if you are reading this one.

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