The Old Gringo

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466840145
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Gringo written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction. One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers, particularly his encounter with General Tomas Arroyo. In the end, the incompatibility of the two countries (or, paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both men, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of two cultures in conflict.

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374530525
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Gringo written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 encounter with one of Villa's generals, Tomas Arroyo, as well as with a spirited young american woman named Harriet Winslow. In the end, the incompatibility between Mexico and the United States (or paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both Bierce and Arroyo, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of these two cultures in conflict."--Publisher description

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374530521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Gringo written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 encounter with one of Villa's generals, Tomas Arroyo, as well as with a spirited young american woman named Harriet Winslow. In the end, the incompatibility between Mexico and the United States (or paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both Bierce and Arroyo, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of these two cultures in conflict."--Publisher description

Author : Peter Conti
Publisher : Full Court Press
ISBN 13 : 9781938812842
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gringo written by Peter Conti and published by Full Court Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid account of a charming rogue who evaded capture for thirteen years as an international fugitive from U.S. law enforcement after being set up by a childhood friend for a crime he didn't commit.

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374225788
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Gringo written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1985-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the Mexican Revolution, a frustrated spinster, a retired journalist, and a fiery young general are inexplicably drawn together as they face love, death and war.

Author : Chesa Boudin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416559841
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gringo written by Chesa Boudin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Gringo, Chesa Boudin takes us on a delightfully engaging trip through Latin America, in an ingenious combination of memoir and commentary" (Howard Zinn). Gringo charts two journeys, both of which began a decade ago. The first is the sweeping transformation of Latin American politics that started with Hugo Chávez's inauguration as president of Venezuela in 1999. In that same year, an eighteen-year-old Chesa Boudin leaves his middle-class Chicago life -- which is punctuated by prison visits to his parents, who were incarcerated when he was fourteen months old for their role in a politically motivated bank truck robbery -- and arrives in Guatemala. He finds a world where disparities of wealth are even more pronounced and where social change is not confined to classroom or dinner-table conversations, but instead takes place in the streets. While a new generation of progress-ive Latin American leaders rises to power, Boudin crisscrosses twenty-seven countries throughout the Americas. He witnesses the economic crisis in Buenos Aires; works inside Chávez's Miraflores palace in Caracas; watches protestors battling police on September 11, 2001, in Santiago; descends into ancient silver mines in Potosí; and travels steerage on a riverboat along the length of the Amazon. He rarely takes a plane when a fifteen-hour bus ride in the company of unfettered chickens is available. Including incisive analysis, brilliant reportage, and deep humanity, Boudin's account of this historic period is revelatory. It weaves together the voices of Latin Americans, some rich, most poor, and the endeavors of a young traveler to understand the world around him while coming to terms with his own complicated past. The result is a marvelous mixture of coming-of-age memoir and travelogue.

Author : Carl Franz
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1612380492
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's Guide to Mexico written by Carl Franz and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 35 years, hundreds of thousands of readers have agreed: This is the classic guide to "living, traveling, and taking things as they come" in Mexico. Now in its updated 14th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado. Features include: • Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get around once you're there • Practical tips to help you stay healthy and safe, deal with red tape, change money, send email, letters and packages, use the telephone, do laundry, order food, speak like a local, and more • Well-informed insight into Mexican culture, and hints for enjoying traditional fiestas and celebrations • The most complete information available on Mexican Internet resources, book and map reviews, and other info sources for travelers

Author : Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564691
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I the Supreme written by Augusto Roa Bastos and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374293414
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Years with Laura Díaz written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significantly, her life story comes to us thanks to her Chicano great-grandson, inheritor of both her gifts and her paradoxes: the novel opens in Detroit and closes in Los Angeles with him.".

Author : William Watts Hart Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Gringo written by William Watts Hart Davis and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: