| The Ultimate Good Luck Contributor(s): Ford, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394750896 ISBN-13: 9780394750897 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1987 Annotation: In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--"New York Times Book Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 86040463 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.55 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--New York Times Book Review |