Mexico
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated first edition. 1-2 cm area of faint brown spots on bottom pages. Mylar cover included. Fine reading copy.
" The mariachis grinned and the leader apologized: 'We thought you were only a norteamericano.' I winced at this perjorative term but said nothing, because I knew that proud Mexicans liked to remind visitors from the north, 'Everyone on this continent is an americano. You're a norteamericano. Don't rob us of our name by stealing it for yourselves.' "
James Michener paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are a turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry--from the brilliance and brutality of the ancients, to the iron fist of the invading Spaniards, to modern Mexico, fighting through dust and bloodshed to build a nation upon the ashes of revolution. Architectural splendors, frenzied bullfights, horrific human sacrifice: Michener weaves them all into an epic human story that ranks with the best of his beloved bestselling novels.
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated first edition. 1-2 cm area of faint brown spots on bottom pages. Mylar cover included. Fine reading copy.
" The mariachis grinned and the leader apologized: 'We thought you were only a norteamericano.' I winced at this perjorative term but said nothing, because I knew that proud Mexicans liked to remind visitors from the north, 'Everyone on this continent is an americano. You're a norteamericano. Don't rob us of our name by stealing it for yourselves.' "
James Michener paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are a turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry--from the brilliance and brutality of the ancients, to the iron fist of the invading Spaniards, to modern Mexico, fighting through dust and bloodshed to build a nation upon the ashes of revolution. Architectural splendors, frenzied bullfights, horrific human sacrifice: Michener weaves them all into an epic human story that ranks with the best of his beloved bestselling novels.
Trade cloth edition in good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated first edition. 1-2 cm area of faint brown spots on bottom pages. Mylar cover included. Fine reading copy.
" The mariachis grinned and the leader apologized: 'We thought you were only a norteamericano.' I winced at this perjorative term but said nothing, because I knew that proud Mexicans liked to remind visitors from the north, 'Everyone on this continent is an americano. You're a norteamericano. Don't rob us of our name by stealing it for yourselves.' "
James Michener paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are a turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry--from the brilliance and brutality of the ancients, to the iron fist of the invading Spaniards, to modern Mexico, fighting through dust and bloodshed to build a nation upon the ashes of revolution. Architectural splendors, frenzied bullfights, horrific human sacrifice: Michener weaves them all into an epic human story that ranks with the best of his beloved bestselling novels.
ISBN 0-679-41649-8
James Michener
1992