Portis, Charles <br/><br/>
Gringos  : a novel 
/ Charles Portis 
 - New York  : The Overlook Press  , 2000 
 - 269 p. 
 - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
<br/><br/>  Located in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors. 
<br/><br/> A wild and woolly, offbeat ride through a quicksand Mexican-American mindscape, Portis's ( True Grit ; Norwood ) latest saga features Jimmy Burns, an idler from Louisiana transplanted to Mexico, where he ekes out a living finding missing persons and doing odd jobs. Equally odd are the other motley expatriates. Ninety-pound Louise Kurle, who's writing a book about benign space dwarfs, suspects her missing husband, Rudy, was abducted by UFOs. Big Dan, a paunchy ex-con guru/white supremacist/kidnapper, poses to his band of deranged hippies as El Mago, the wizard whom the Mayas predict will appear at the end of time. Murder, adventure and Indian lore animate a Mexico aswarm with New Age mystics, kooks, skinheads, graduate students, maverick archeologists and looters of shrines. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781585670932 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Americans---Mexico----Fiction<br/>Mexico----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Humorous stories
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC POR