Category - Fiction / Mystery & Detective
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 2 years ago
Views - 7
Wishes - 1
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Oct 1991
Seller Description
"The Old Gringo is a perfect little#gemstone, faceted by a#master#craftsman." -CHARLES LARSEN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK WORLD Carlos Fuentes has been intrigued for forty years by stories of the cele- brated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce and by his#mysterious disappearance in#Mexico during the civil war there. In The Old Gringo, Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among#PanchoVilla's#troops and portrays the encounter of two cultures, the American and the Mexican, through the passionate triangular relationship of Bierce, a younger American woman named#HarrietWinslow come to Mexico to teach the children of a#wealthy Mexican landowner, and Tomas Arroyo, a Mexican general under Villa. This is a haunting and eloquent book in which politics and history are inextricably woven into one of the most unusual romantic stories of our time.
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The old gringo
ISBN: 9780060970635
Publisher Description
"The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho villa's soldiers - particularly his encou...
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