The Ultimate Good Luck

by Richard Ford

2021-01-01 11:41:42

In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend''s brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get h... Read more
In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend''s brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.

"His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--New York Times Book Review Less

Book Details

File size7.96 X 5.19 X 0.59 in
Print pages208
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date May 12, 1987
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780394750897
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published seven novels and three collections of stories, including The Sportswriter, Independence Day, A Multitude of Sins, The Lay of the...

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