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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 furthermore get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.

Produktbeschreibung
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 furthermore get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.
Autorenporträt
Richard Ford, geboren 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, lebt heute in New Orleans und Montana. Für seine Romane hat er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten. 2014 wurde er mit dem Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix für sein Lebenswerk geehrt und 2016 mit dem Asturien-Preis in der Kategorie Literatur.
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'Ford's taut, compelling prose is as piercingly clear as a police siren. No other storyteller writes about the alienated and uncommitted with such mastery' Sunday Times