- Ethnic relations, Fiction, Humor (Fiction), Illegal aliens
The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 355
- Publisher
- Viking, Blackstone Audiobooks, VIKING
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780786146321
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American novelist and short story writer
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