The Old Gringo - Softcover

Fuentes, Carlos

3.52

3,544 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374525226 ISBN 13: 9780374525224

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 1997

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The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes the conflict of North America's two cultures locked in deadly embrace.

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Review:

A dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream.--Michiko Kakutani "The New York Times "

A perfect little gemstone, faceted by a master craftsman.--Charles Larsen "Chicago Tribune Book World "

The fate of Bierce has intrigued Americans since 1914, when he vanished . . . Fuentes has spun an opalescent around the mystery.--Evan S. Connell "Los Angeles Times "

A dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream. Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"

A perfect little gemstone, faceted by a master craftsman. Charles Larsen, "Chicago Tribune Book World"

The fate of Bierce has intrigued Americans since 1914, when he vanished . . . Fuentes has spun an opalescent around the mystery. Evan S. Connell, "Los Angeles Times""

-A dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream.- --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

-A perfect little gemstone, faceted by a master craftsman.- --Charles Larsen, Chicago Tribune Book World

-The fate of Bierce has intrigued Americans since 1914, when he vanished . . . Fuentes has spun an opalescent around the mystery.- --Evan S. Connell, Los Angeles Times

"A dazzling novel that possesses the weight and resonance of myth [and] the fierce magic of a remembered dream." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A perfect little gemstone, faceted by a master craftsman." --Charles Larsen, Chicago Tribune Book World

"The fate of Bierce has intrigued Americans since 1914, when he vanished . . . Fuentes has spun an opalescent around the mystery." --Evan S. Connell, Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Carlos Fuentes, born in Panama in 1928, has received many awards for his accomplishments as a novelist, essayist, and commentator, among them the Cervantes Prize. He is the author of more than twenty books, most recently (in the United States) Inez. Other Fuentes titles from FSG include Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, and The Good Conscience. He divides his time between Mexico City and London.

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