Beating the Devil - Hardcover

Jameson, W.C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826340393 ISBN 13: 9780826340399

Verlag: University of New Mexico Press, 2007

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Book by Jameson W C

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Carlos, a young man who has grown up near El Paso, Texas, succumbs to the allure of Mexico and crosses the Rio Grande to embark on a mythic journey. Bearing the scars of a cruel childhood, Carlos is eager to escape the United States, a country he finds insipid, inauthentic, and hypocritical. In contrast, the northern Mexico countryside offers him a chaotic reality in which he battles a gigantic foe in a boxing match, eats snakes, and befriends a hunchbacked dwarf who tells tales of brutality and revolution in Carlos' newly adopted homeland. It is from this dwarf that Carlos learns of Chavez, guerilla champion of the oppressed who is engaged in a battle of attrition and vengeance against the militia henchmen of Joaquin Mueller, a land- and power-hungry hacendado. Carlos joins the outlaw Chavez and his band of men in their struggle against Mueller. It is a struggle that will overwhelm Carlos with death and loss, setting him on a path for revenge of his own. ""When the dreams come I taste the dust, the dry, swirling Mexican earth kicked up by galloping horses and running men.

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A suspenseful tale of brutal struggle and loss set in the northern Mexican countryside.

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• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0826340393
• ISBN 13: 9780826340399
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216