Describe Of Books The Tortilla Curtain
| Title | : | The Tortilla Curtain |
| Author | : | T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 355 pages |
| Published | : | 1995 by Penguin Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Book Club |
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Paperback | Pages: 355 pages Rating: 3.65 | 26895 Users | 3235 Reviews
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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 illegals Cándido and América Rincón 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 Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.Particularize Books Concering The Tortilla Curtain
| Original Title: | The Tortilla Curtain |
| ISBN: | 014023828X (ISBN13: 9780140238280) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Delany Mossbacher, Candido Rincon, America Rincon |
| Setting: | California(United States) Los Angeles, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors (2007), Prix Médicis Etranger (1997) |
Rating Of Books The Tortilla Curtain
Ratings: 3.65 From 26895 Users | 3235 ReviewsNotice Of Books The Tortilla Curtain
I took this out from the library over a year ago. I lost the book, paid for it, found it again, settled in to read it, but before I could do this Ryan returned it to the library thinking that it was way way overdue. Enough time has elapsed for me to overcome my feeling of foolishness, so I checked it out again. As it turns out, the timing was perfect. In the past week, the political landscape has turned racially quite ugly. And my passage through this book kept perfect time with the dispatchesThis is probably not going to be a popular opinion, but...I didn't like this book very much. I might have DNF but I kept hoping it would get better. So depressing. You have a Mexican family searching for a better life and the wealthy white family who slide into cruelty. The characters aren't very well developed.
T.C. Boyle's tale of rich v. poor and indigenous v. alien feels so contemporary, it might have been written in 2017, Year One of America's moral decline. Yet, it was written in 1995 and from his epigraph, a quote from John Steinbeck's GRAPES OF WRATH, Boyle reminds us that this country has a long history of both demonizing and exploiting the poor. He even expands the idea of the gated community into the idea of a walled community, and ridicules both for their disingenuous claims of protection in
Did Donald Trump or someone who managed his election campaign read The Tortilla Curtain? In the book, the residents of a gated community decide to build a wall to keep the Mexicans (who they think are responsible for the spray-painted abuses that have begun to appear on their walls) and the coyotes out of their houses. Everyone including the secular humanist protagonist falls in line behind the idea. The stories of two couples one an affluent white secular humanist couple and the other a poor
This is the book that finally put me off of fiction written for adults. Unless you live under a rock with cotton in your ears and a bag over your head, you know that life sucks and the human experience is filled with misery and despair. When I spend my precious time reading, I want to read something well-written and inspiring, regardless of the content.For example: You can read something about the holocaust, and come away feeling amazed and grateful that there are some people in the world
I thought it was chilling the way the author wrote about these "do-gooder" types (the real estate agent and wildlife journalist) and how they are so careful to exercise regularly (swimming, running, hiking, etc), live a healthy lifestyle (there is a line, something like "while not true vegetarians, they watch their intake of animal fats"), and be "aware" of society's ills (like the way Kyra speaks out against animal abuse, how Delaney speaks out against feeding coyotes, and how they both express
I have read this book so long ago that I will have to reread it to review it. I still have it on my shelf and remember how good it was. It made a lasting impression on me. I just want to get it into my Goodreads shelves.
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