The crystal frontier
Subtitle: a novel in nine stories
By: Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam.
Contributors: Mac Adam, Alfred J., 1941-
Edition: 1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Description: The nine stories comprising this brilliant new novel from Carlos Fuentes all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of one Leonardo Barroso, a powerful oligarch of northern Mexico with manifold connections to the United States.

Each story concerns a Mexican-American encounter - sometimes hilarious, often tragic, frequently ambivalent, inevitably poignant - and each unique drama in its own way epitomizes some striking contrast along the invisible, reflective, dangerous frontier that divides the American-Mexican world.