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Synopsis
T.C. Boyle's tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream
"A masterpiece of contemporary social satire . . . Turning the collective face of Mexican immigration into one ordinary human being, and walking many bruising miles in Candido's cheap shoes, is Mr. Boyle's gift to our collective conscience. But what makes The Tortilla Curtain good reading for any political stripe is that the author neither romanticizes the newcomers nor demonizes those who would pull up the ladder behind them." --The Wall Street Journal
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Review
Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger
"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 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
"Boyle's writing is irresistible and his sense of dramatic timing is impeccable."
--Entertainment Weekly
--Newsweek
"It says a lot about T. Coraghessan Boyle's new novel that so many generations of great satirists come to mind when reading it--from Swift to Twain to Waugh to Woody Allen, Boyle specifically evokes Voltaire."
--The Baltimore Sun
"Weaving social commentary into moving entertaining fiction is a job few writers can handle. Boyle does so here, admirably. Readers should not miss this latest work from an impressive talent."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Boyle's sixth novel cements his place among the reigning pantheon of contemporary American fiction writers. (It's one heck of a great read.)"
--Rocky Mountain News
"A panoramic slice of social realism . . . [that] incorporates all of Boyle's themes: the impossibility of assimilation, the need for control, the increasing helplessness of white males."
--Vogue
"A tale that squeezes one last cup of vinegar from The Grapes of Wrath."
--Portland Oregonian
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A classic novel by America's foremost novelist
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 014023828X
- ISBN 13 9780140238280
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number5
- Number of pages368
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