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Author:

Boyle, T. Coraghessan.

Title:

The tortilla curtain / T. Coraghessan Boyle.

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

1995

Description:

355 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations--Fiction.
Married people--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Mexicans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
American fiction--20th century.
Mexicans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Ethnic relations.
Married people.
Mexicans.
California--Los Angeles.
Undocumented immigrants--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Undocumented immigrants.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Black humor (Literature)
Domestic fiction.

Summary:

The story of illegal aliens in California, told through the eyes of two very different couples, one well-off Anglos, the other illegal Mexicans living in a canyon. The novel chronicles their relationship against the background of growing hostility between immigrants and natives. By the author of East Is East.

ISBN:

9780140238280
014023828X
9780670856046
0670856045

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31900353

LCCN:

95001970

Locations:

FJPC224 -- Elkader Public Library (Elkader) — Copies: 8

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls) — Copies: 11 — Kit notes: +CD