The Tortilla Curtain - Softcover

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143119079 ISBN 13: 9780143119074

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2011

Synopsis

A freak accident causes two couples-a pair of Los Angeles liberals and Mexican illegal's-and their opposing worlds to collide in a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.

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Review:

"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

From the Publisher:

A classic novel by America's foremost novelist

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0143119079
• ISBN 13: 9780143119074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366