Port Tropique
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In this sinuous novel by the author of Wild at Heart, a Conradian adventurer becomes involved with smugglers and revolutionaries in a battered Central American city ripe with intrigue and corruption. An allusive and utterly original work, Port Tropique is an exciting book.--The New York Times Book Review.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0679734929
ISBN13:9780679734925
Release Date:March 1991
Publisher:Vintage Books USA
Length:185 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
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2 ratings
Stan Getz fans, they're everywhere.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
It was a dark and stormy night. In the banana republic of Port Tropique guns, money, sex, power, and politics are shuffled slicker than a Vegas blackjack dealer. All the dames have red lips and cold eyes and cruise the bar without leaving their seat. The men wear panamas drawn down over their eye and speak in grated muffles. The local authorities are unwashed louts and everything is sweat and heat and panting in the dark. It's every ginjoint in every movie in the world rolled into one little book with nothing to do with Ben Franklin. Great for a Saturday afternoon.
Five stars for a brilliant noir outing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Barry Gifford is a poet (in fact) with a will to communicate. He drew each chapter as an artist, framing his stalled antihero with keen intelligence. We have become so saturated with standardized images and imagined protocol among gangsters/CIA bagmen/gun runners that it takes an author of rare imagination to write immediate prose that pulls us from the cookie-cutter version, back into the human mind. I've lent this book to many friends and they all raved, except the last one, who failed to return it. I wish he or she would deliver the goods.
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