El Camino Del Rio - Couverture rigide

Page, Jake

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0826319904 ISBN 13 : 9780826319906

Editeur : University of New Mexico Press, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Sanderson Jim

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"A richly imagined and terrifically realized novel...it rings as true as the winter light across the southern desert." James Crumley

Circling buzzards lead U.S. Border Patrol agent Dolph Martinez to the corpse of a man executed in the desert…a murder that shatters the fragile calm in a dusty, Texas town. His investigation pits him against the Mexican Army, the DEA, big-money Houston real estate interests, a Catholic nun who practices voodoo, a charismatic revolutionary wanted on both sides of the border, and perhaps deadliest of all, the demons from his own, tortured past.

"Grit and grace in the face of troubling ambiguities in a moral borderland." Publishers Weekly

"Sanderson makes the gritty, thankless landscape of the border come alive, from the relentless heat to the failed hopes." The Washington Post

"Lean and lyrical." The New York Times

"Sanderson is especially good at contrasting the clarity and austere natural beauty of the Chihuahuan desert with the murky, Orson Welles aura that envelopes human society there." Dallas Morning News

Biographie de l'auteur

Jim Sanderson is the chair of the English and Modern Language Department at Lamar University and is the author of seven acclaimed novels, including El Camino del Rio and La Mordida, both featuring US Border Patrol Officer Dolph Martinez.

His many other works include two award-winning collections of short stories: Semi-Private Rooms, which won the 1992 Kenneth Patton Prize, and Faded Love, which was nominated for Texas Institute of Letters’ 2010 Jesse Jones award for best book written about Texas or by a Texan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of New Mexico Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826319904
• ISBN 13: 9780826319906
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible