The Tortilla Curtain (Bloomsbury Classic Reads)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: July 5, 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780747574644
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
First sentence: AFTERWARD, HE TRIED TO REDUCE IT TO ABSTRACT terms, an accident in a world of accidents, the collision of opposing forcesthe bumper of his car and the frail scrambling hunched-over form of a dark little man with a wild look in his eyebut he wasn't very successful.