The Tortilla Curtain
T. C. Boyle$15.30
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T.C. Boyle's tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream
"A masterpiece of contemporary social satire." --The Wall Street Journal 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. Mexican immigrants Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 09/01/1996
ISBN: 9780140238280
Pages: 355
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.07w x 0.72d
Review Citations: New York Times 09/15/1996 pg. 44
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 07/22/1996
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 71300 / Tortilla Curtain
Reading Level: 7.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 22
"A masterpiece of contemporary social satire." --The Wall Street Journal 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. Mexican immigrants Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 09/01/1996
ISBN: 9780140238280
Pages: 355
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.07w x 0.72d
Review Citations: New York Times 09/15/1996 pg. 44
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 07/22/1996
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 71300 / Tortilla Curtain
Reading Level: 7.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 22