There Will Never Be Another You: A Novel - Hardcover

See, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679463178 ISBN 13: 9780679463177

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Here is a true literary event–the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle’s Throne is a seriously entertaining and perceptive story of international intrigue, sexual deception, naked ambition, and treacherous betrayal.

In the near future, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Mexico’s idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington’s refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is swift. Concocting a “glitch” in a Florida satellite, America’s president cuts Mexico’s communications systems–no phones, faxes, or e-mails–and plunges the country into an administrative nightmare of colossal proportions.

Now, despite the motto that “a Mexican politician never puts anything in writing,” people have no choice but to communicate through letters, which Fuentes crafts with a keen understanding of man’s motives and desires. As the blizzard of activity grows more and more complex, political adversaries come out to prey. The ineffectual president, his scheming cabinet secretary, a thuggish and ruthless police chief, and an unscrupulous, sensual kingmaker are just a few of the fascinating characters maneuvering and jockeying for position to achieve the power they all so desperately crave.

Set in a modern, globalized Mexico still struggling to escape its age-old culture of crony politics and trying to avoid slouching toward definitive dictatorship, The Eagle’s Throne is one of Carlos Fuentes’s sharpest and most prophetic works, a career triumph from one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.

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About the Author:

Carolyn See is the author of many novels, including The Handyman and Golden Days, as well as such acclaimed works of nonfiction as Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers and Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America. She is also a book critic for The Washington Post and has been on the boards of the National Book Critics Circle and PEN/West International. She has won both Guggenheim and Getty fellowships and currently teaches English at UCLA. She lives in Pacific Palisades, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0679463178
• ISBN 13: 9780679463177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288