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The Ultimate Good Luck Paperback - 1987

by Richard Ford


From the publisher

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter comes a novel of menace and eroticism set in Oaxaca, Mexico. - "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico." --The New York Times Book Review

In this novel, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.

From the jacket flap

In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.
"His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--"New York Times Book Review

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  • Title The Ultimate Good Luck
  • Author Richard Ford
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Vintage contempo
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 1987-05-12
  • ISBN 9780394750897 / 0394750896
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.99 x 5.24 x 0.58 in (20.29 x 13.31 x 1.47 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mexico, Drug traffic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86040463
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

The author of five novels and two collections of stories, Richard Ford was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction.
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