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The Sinaloa Story
by Gifford, Barry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151002495
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002498
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151002495 . Signed by Gifford on the title page. Brown cloth spine over orange boards. The edge of the boards are slightly bumped. A trace of dust soiling to the jacket. A motorcycle mechanic in Arizona agrees to help a Mexican prostitute murder her employer for his money. ; 231 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Few writers have explored the margins of our world with the insight and understanding of Barry Gifford, and his newest novel takes him to the border and beyond, with a cast of characters who come straight out of the darkest corners of the imagination. Ava Varazo, a beautiful woman from a small village in Mexico, works in a brothel in the border town of La Paz, Arizona. When one of her customers, DelRay Mudo, a motorcycle mechanic from Guadelupe, falls in love with her, Ava seizes the chance to change her life. Indio Desacato, a rich racketeer from Sinaloa, Texas, is enamored of Ava and has asked her to be the queen of his own house. Desacato, Ava tells DelRay, brags that he never keeps less than half a million dollars, in cash, at his mansion. DelRay, whose own future holds no great promise outside of Ava, agrees to go to Sinaloa with her. They kill Desacato together, but Ava abandons DelRay-as she had planned all along- and disappears with the loot. DelRay tracks her down to her home in Mexico, but Ava is no longer the woman she was in La Paz, and DelRay finds himself unexpectedly caught between a campesino revolution and a pair of assassins. Expertly shifting between the tender and the terrifying, Barry Gifford has written a book that leaves both our nerves, and our minds, on an electrifying edge.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25025
- Title
- The Sinaloa Story
- Author
- Gifford, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151002495
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002498
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 0151002495, Americans Fiction Love stories Mexican-American Border Region Mexico North , America Prostitutes Texas Western fiction, Signed, FIRST Edition
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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