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082	0		_aFIC POR
100	1		_aPortis, Charles
245	1	0	_aGringos _b: a novel _c/ Charles Portis
260			_aNew York _b: The Overlook Press _c, 2000
300			_a269 p.
500			_a Located in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors.
520			_aA 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.
650		4	_aAmericans _z-Mexico _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMexico _x--Fiction
655		7	_aHumorous stories
830		0	_aSan Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author
942			_cMO
999			_c261095 _d261095