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The old gringo / by Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden and the author

By:

Fuentes, Carlos, (1928-2012)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus Giroux , c1985.Description: 199 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780374530525

Subject(s):

Mexico -- -History -- -Revolution, 1910-1920 -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC FUE

Summary: One of Carlos Fuentes's greatest works, The Old Gringo 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC FUE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		043593

Translation of: El gringo viejo.

One of Carlos Fuentes's greatest works, The Old Gringo 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.

Translated from the Spanish to English.

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