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When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning his state park into a ghetto, and a boiling pot of racism and prejudice threatens to spill over.
Published | 04 Jul 2011 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 368 |
ISBN | 9781408826768 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
This novel examines America's guerrilla war between the haves and have-nots with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities ... rock'n'roll, full of exciting, vivid American landscapes, utopian, manic
Observer
If Dickens were alive today he would be writing this sort of book
Rosie Boycott, The Times, Books of the Year
A harrowing, even horrific, tale of an immigrant couple's venture into California, and the shockingly brutal reception they receive ... a remarkable feat of imaginative empathy
Daily Telegraph
Thrilling ... it's the same set up as Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities but Boyle immediately enlivens it
Independent on Sunday
Stirring ... The Tortilla Curtain confirms Boyle's reputation as a novelist of exuberance and invention ... It also adds to his fictional range an open-hearted compassion for those whom society fears and reviles
New York Times Book Review
A bold, strange novel ... a hectic satire on LA liberalism and real estate - Tom Wolfe meets Steinbeck
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
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