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His second novel and third book, a hard-boiled thriller involving American expatriates in Mexico. Dust jacket design by Leon Steinmetz.
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l of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.
"His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and two previous collections of stories. His novel, Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and, two weeks later, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, the first time the same book has won both prizes.
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- PublisherBOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY. 1981
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0395303737
- ISBN 13 9780395303733
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages201
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