The Tortilla Curtain - by T C Boyle (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of The Road to Wellville comes his most controversial novel yet--a deeply moving story of the men and women who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American dream. "Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel".--The Boston Globe.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>T.C. Boyle's tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream </b><br> <b> </b><br> <b>"A masterpiece of contemporary social satire." <i>--The Wall Street Journal</i></b> <p/></b>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger<br></b><br> "A compelling story of myopic misunderstanding and mutual tragedy." <br>--<i>Chicago Tribune<br></i><br> "Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel . . . A book to appreciate as we peer at the faces of strangers outside our windows, and wall ourselves in." <br>--<i>The Boston Globe<br></i><br> "Lays on the line our national cult of hypocrisy. Comically and painfully he details the smug wastefulness of the haves and the vile misery of the have-nots." <br>--Barbara Kingsolver, <i>The Nation<br></i><br> "Boyle's writing is irresistible and his sense of dramatic timing is impeccable." <br>--<i>Entertainment Weekly <p/></i>"America's most imaginative contemporary novelist." <br><i>--<i>Newsweek</i><br></i><br> "It says a lot about T. Coraghessan Boyle's new novel that so many generations of great satirists come to mind when reading it--from Swift to Twain to Waugh to Woody Allen, Boyle specifically evokes Voltaire." <br>--<i>The Baltimore Sun<br></i><br> "Weaving social commentary into moving entertaining fiction is a job few writers can handle. Boyle does so here, admirably. Readers should not miss this latest work from an impressive talent." <br>--<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<br></i><br> "Boyle's sixth novel cements his place among the reigning pantheon of contemporary American fiction writers. (It's one heck of a great read.)" <br>--<i>Rocky Mountain News<br></i><br> "A panoramic slice of social realism . . . [that] incorporates all of Boyle's themes: the impossibility of assimilation, the need for control, the increasing helplessness of white males." <br>--<i>Vogue<br></i><br> "A tale that squeezes one last cup of vinegar from <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i>." <br>--<i>Portland Oregonian</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>T.C. Boyle</b> is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published sixteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel <i>World's End</i>, and the Prix Médicis étranger for <i>The Tortilla Curtain</i> in 1995; his 2003 novel <i>Drop City</i> was a finalist for the National Book Award. His honors include the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Henry David Thoreau Prize for excellence in nature writing, and the Rea Award for the Short Story. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara. <p/></p>
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