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Old Gringo was agony for me to read. Carlos Fuentes came to Houston a few weeks back and I drove in to see him. He was pretty much as I'd expected. An achingly handsome eighty-year-old man who writes poetic novels. And who sees life as experienced mainly through his manly body parts. This may work for his male readers. This may work for the parts of Old Gringo told from the point of view of his male characters like Pancho Villa and one of Villa's generals and even Ambrose Bierce. But it did not
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The subject of this book is somewhat interesting for me, because I never new many things about Mexico and the revolution led by Zapata. I learn a lot of things about how mexican people are looking at the americans and how thy lived during that times.
My copy of this book is in romanian.
My copy of this book is in romanian.
Jul 12, 2014
Laura
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