Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780140238280
ISBN: 014023828X
Label: Penguin Books
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 355
Publication Date: September 01, 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books
Studio: Penguin Books

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
While leading their lives in their gated hilltop community in Los Angeles, Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher accidently meet Mexican illegal aliens Ca+a7ndido and Ame+a7rica Rinco+a7n, and their encounter brings them together in a relationship of error and misunderstanding. Reprint.




Rating: - A modern GRAPES of WRATH
Tortilla Curtain is a modern day version of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. The Mexican immigrants are the Okies. I'm glad this great author kept up the theme that Steinbeck started of the down trodden workers.

Boyle's style is original here & quite different from Steinbeck's, but they are cut from the same pragmatic & humanistic cloth. Unlike Steinbeck, TC Boyle compares and contrasts the wealthy and the impoverished by interweaving their lives to startle the reader. As in all his novels, ... Read More

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Rating: - Dynamite
Not in a long time have I been gripped like this by a novel, fretting, twisting, turning to the next chapter with my teeth clenched, hands clasped onto the slippery book covers, waking up to find out we still don't know what's next. This book sucks its reader into a vortex, the same its characters are remorselessly pulled into. And Boyle is a master at varying pace; the more sedate chapters are just short and interesting enough they don't turn into an interference.

The Tortilla Curtain ... Read More

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Rating: - Good read-great descriptions
I enjoyed this book but did not like the ending. Good character development and descriptions of the environment. Good contrast between the two social classes. I thought some of the living conditions of the Mexicans seemed overdone but my California book club members say "Not so". They could see it happening as described. Interesting read.

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Rating: - i give it 10 stars!
I'm surprised at how few 5 star reviews there are for this book. i read this book in high school and was one of the few out of all my classmates who didn't hate it. Very touching and moving, very real, believable characters, with rateable and real-life situations. The contrasting point of views are very effective and evoke empathy and understanding for both sets of couples. Wonderful novel.

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Rating: - A waste of life
Our book club selected this book and I couldn't be sorrier to discover that it existed. It pretends to be clever and sympathetic but delivered with the most disingenuous note. The best use for my copy would be to tear each page and use it to wipe windows or clean toilets. Total rubbish.

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