Gringos by Portis, Charles

Gringos

A truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists, the author of the...
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Author: Charles Portis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Gringos by Portis, Charles

Gringos

$26.18

Gringos

$26.18
Author: Charles Portis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists, the author of the perennial bestseller True Grit

Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American.

For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation--whatever it takes to remain "the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers."

But when Jimmy's laid-back lifestyle is seriously imposed upon by a 90-pound stalker called Louise, a sudden wave of "hippies" (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search of psychic happenings, and a group of archaeologists who are unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his simple South-of-the-Border existence faces a clear and present danger.

"Gringos is Portis's subtlest, funniest, and most valuable novel for its depth of inarguable wisdom." --Wells Tower, GQ

Author: Charles Portis
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781585670932


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/12/2000 pg. 40
Library Journal 05/15/2001 pg. 168

About the Author
Charles Portis (1933-2020) lived most of his life in Arkansas, where he was born and raised. He was a graduate of the University of Arkansas, which in 2018 awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, and was a writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of four other novels, also available from the Overlook Press: Norwood, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos. A selection of his writing has been collected in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany.

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