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T.C. Boyle's "irresistible" (Entertainment Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream "A masterpiece of contemporary social satire." --The Wall Street Journal
WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER
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. Undocumented immigrants 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 dramatic comedy of error and prejudice.
Author: T. C. Boyle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.07w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780140238280
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 22
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 71300 / Tortilla Curtain
WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER
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. Undocumented immigrants 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 dramatic comedy of error and prejudice.
Author: T. C. Boyle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.07w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780140238280
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 22
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 71300 / Tortilla Curtain
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