num_pages: 274
description: Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Set against a backdrop of an Arizona influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the westward expansion of the United States, the story is a bravura performance by the 1989 Nobel Prize-winning author. A monologue by the naive, unreliable, and uneducated Wendell L. Espana, the book weaves together hundreds of characters and a torrent of interconnected anecdotes, some true, some fabricated. Wendell s story is a document of the vast array of ills that welcomed the dawning of the twentieth century, ills that continue to shape our world in the new millennium."
language: English
title: Christ Versus Arizona
titlecomplete: Christ Versus Arizona
characters: Wyatt Earp
genres: Spain, 20th Century, Novels, Literature, Nobel Prize, Westerns, Fiction, Spanish Literature
ratings_count: 191
places: Arizona, Tombstone, Arizona, Southwest
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press