9780156006200
The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories
Carlos Fuentes; Alfred MacAdam; Alfred J. Mac Adam
ISBN 13: 9780156006200
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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Carlos Fuentes's new novel concerns people, rich and poor, who all have something to do with the family of one Leonardo Barroso, a powerful business tycoon of Northern Mexico who successfully exploits his connections to the United States. Barroso controls the fate of strangers as well as family members, and his decisions-whether to marry his son to his goddaughter and future mistress, whether to sponsor a young gay medical student for his studies at Cornell, or whether to fly weekend janitors to New York City to avoid American labor costs-carry long-term effects for anyone within his web. Fuentes mingles generations and classes in this memorable novel, vividly illuminating the cultural conflict that rages between Mexico and America. In extraordinary prose, in the experience of love, of loneliness, of heartbreak and redemption, the dramas that ensue epitomize the strange, invisible, dangerous frontier that divides us.
Review:
"A sardonic tale about relations between the U.S. and Mexico..."
Kirkus, 09/01/1997
Review:"What links these stories, however vaguely, is the figure of Don Leonardo Barroso, a Mexican version of Mario Puzo's Godfather....One years for some revelation about this man that will rescue him, even briefly, from the Hollywood stereotype of the Mexican mogul, but it never happens....Fuentes has been criticized by feminists for his superficial treatment of women, and this problem persists in 'The Crystal Frontier'....But the problem of stereotyping extends well beyond the women. Hardly a character in these stories rises above caricature."
Jay Parini, New York Times Book Review, 10/26/1997
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