The Tortilla Curtain (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Southern California and Mexico
- Principal Characters: Delaney Mossbacher, Kyra Menaker-Mossbacher, Cándido Rincón, América Rincón, Jack Jardine
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Racism, Nature, Prejudices or antipathies, Poverty or poor people, Ethnic groups, Ethnic relations, Immigration or emigration, Liberalism, Suburban life, Environment or environmental health
- Locales: California, Mexico
T. Coraghessan Boyle’s novels present conflicts between cultures and values: Englishmen in Africa and an African in Victorian England in Water Music (1982), marijuana growers and Northern California rednecks in Budding Prospects (1984), Dutch settlers of New York and Native Americans in World’s End (1987), a young Japanese and the American South in East Is East (1990), health crusaders and quick-buck artists in The Road to Wellville (1993). The Tortilla Curtain makes overt all that is implicit in these novels and several of Boyle’s...
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