The Tortilla Curtain

T.C. Boyle's "irresistible" (Entertainment Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of...
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The Tortilla Curtain by Boyle, T. C.

The Tortilla Curtain

$18.00

The Tortilla Curtain

$18.00
Author: T. C. Boyle
Format: Paperback
Language: English
T.C. Boyle's "irresistible" (Entertainment Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream

"A masterpiece of contemporary social satire." --The Wall Street Journal

WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Undocumented immigrants Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a dramatic comedy of error and prejudice.

Author: T. C. Boyle
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.07w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780140238280
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 22
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 71300 / Tortilla Curtain


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/15/1996 pg. 44
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 07/22/1996

About the Author
T. C. Boyle is a novelist and regular contributor to The New Yorker. His novels include World's End and The Tortilla Curtain, and he has also published numerous collections of short stories. A Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California, he lives in Santa Barbara.

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