Sinaloa Story - Couverture rigide

Gifford, Barry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151002495 ISBN 13 : 9780151002498

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Gifford Barry

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Few writers have explored the margins of our world with the insight and understanding of Barry Gifford, and his newest novel takes him to the border and beyond, with a cast of characters who come straight out of the darkest corners of the imagination. Ava Varazo, a beautiful woman from a small village in Mexico, works in a brothel in the border town of La Paz, Arizona. When one of her customers, DelRay Mudo, a motorcycle mechanic from Guadelupe, falls in love with her, Ava seizes the chance to change her life. Indio Desacato, a rich racketeer from Sinaloa, Texas, is enamored of Ava and has asked her to be the queen of his own house. Desacato, Ava tells DelRay, brags that he never keeps less than half a million dollars, in cash, at his mansion. DelRay, whose own future holds no great promise outside of Ava, agrees to go to Sinaloa with her. They kill Desacato together, but Ava abandons DelRay-as she had planned all along- and disappears with the loot. DelRay tracks her down to her home in Mexico, but Ava is no longer the woman she was in La Paz, and DelRay finds himself unexpectedly caught between a campesino revolution and a pair of assassins. Expertly shifting between the tender and the terrifying, Barry Gifford has written a book that leaves both our nerves, and our minds, on an electrifying edge.

Quatrième de couverture

En visitant un bordel/drive-in, un mécanicien au chômage, DelRay Mudo tombe amoureux d'une prostituée mexicaine, Ava Varazo. Elle trouve ainsi l'opportunité de changer de vie et ils partent tous les deux pour Sinaloa, au Texas, un État «où rien de bon n'arrive jamais».D'une beauté étourdissante, mais extrêmement dangereuse, Ava entraîne DelRay dans un plan macabre : tuer Indio Desacato - dealer, maquereau, racketteur de son état - totalement fou d'Ava et qui veut faire d'elle la reine de son «harem». Au départ, tout se déroule comme prévu. Mais à qui profite réellement ce plan ?

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0151002495
• ISBN 13: 9780151002498
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240