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Ultimate good luck

ID 292094
Slug ultimate-good-luck
Contributors
Annotation
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. <br><br>&quot;His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico.&quot;--<i>New York Times Book Review</i>
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Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
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Publisher Vintage US
Imprint
Language eng
Page count
Duration
Publication date first 1987-05-12
Publication date latest 1987-05-12
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  • ISBN: 9780394750897 (BC)

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