The Tortilla Curtain
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“He’d taken America from her father so they could have a better life…and now he couldn’t even put food in her mouth. Worse: she was going to earn his keep.”
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Undocumented Mexicans Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to thier vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. From the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“He’d taken America from her father so they could have a better life…and now he couldn’t even put food in her mouth. Worse: she was going to earn his keep.”
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Undocumented Mexicans Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to thier vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. From the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“He’d taken America from her father so they could have a better life…and now he couldn’t even put food in her mouth. Worse: she was going to earn his keep.”
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Undocumented Mexicans Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to thier vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. From the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
ISBN 0-670-85604-5
T.C. Boyle
1995