The Old Gringo (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Revolutionaries, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Revolutions, 1910’s, Mexico or Mexicans, Soldiers, Machismo, Latin America or Latin Americans
- Locales: Mexico, Chihuahua, Mexico
Set in the northern Mexican desert in 1913, this intriguing novel is inspired by the rich folklore surrounding the disappearance of the American writer Ambrose Bierce, the “old gringo” of the title. At the age of seventy-one, Bierce set out to join the rebel army of the legendary Pancho Villa and was never heard from again. Inventing the details of Bierce’s travels, Fuentes constructs his novel as the flashback memories of Harriet Winslow, an American schoolteacher, who met Bierce when he was aiding the Villista armies headed by the peasant leader Tomas Arroyo. The circumstances...
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