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The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides)
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The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides) Paperback - 1996

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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From the author of The Road to Wellville comes his most controversial novel yet--a deeply moving story of the men and women who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American dream. "Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel".--The Boston Globe.

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  • Title The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides)
  • Author T. Coraghessan Boyle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1996-09-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31UE34000N08_ns
  • ISBN 9780140238280 / 014023828X
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.78 x 5.07 x 0.72 in (19.76 x 12.88 x 1.83 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1210
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Geographic Orientation: California
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Married people - California - Los Angeles -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95001970
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger

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 illegals 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.

From the publisher

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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Citations

  • New York Times, 09/15/1996, Page 44
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/22/1996, Page 0

About the author

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published sixteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World's End, and the Prix Mdicis tranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995; his 2003 novel Drop City was a finalist for the National Book Award. His honors include the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing, and the Rea Award for the Short Story. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

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