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008 210312n1997 gw ||||| |||| 00||||eng
020 _a0747529027
100 _aBOYLE, Tom Coraghessa
_c
245 _aThe Tortilla Curtain
_b
260 _aLondon
_bBloomsbury
_c1997
300 _a355 S.
520 _aWhen Delaney Mossbacher runs over a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes the man to hospital. He leaves him $20 before returning to his privileged life in California while the Mexican staggers home to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife.
650 _aEnglischliteratur
650 _aRacism
650 _aCalifornia
650 _aImmigrants
650 _aFiction
650 _aTopic
942 _cBK
999 _c12011
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