Book description
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When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither
reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man
accepts and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife,
leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But
these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to
clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning his
state park into a ghetto, and a boiling pot of racism and prejudice
threatens to spill over.<
'This novel examines America's guerrilla war between
the haves and have-nots with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of
the Vanities' Observer 'A harrowing, even horrific, tale of an
immigrant couple's venture into California, and the shockingly brutal
reception they receive ... a remarkable feat of imaginative empathy'
Daily Telegraph 'Thrilling ... it's the same set up as Tom Wolfe's The
Bonfire of the Vanities but Boyle immediately enlivens it' Independent
on Sunday 'A powerful novel ... One of the best books I've read this
year' Marie Claire
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When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither
reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man
accepts and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife,
leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But
these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to
clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning his
state park into a ghetto, and a boiling pot of racism and prejudice
threatens to spill over.<
