The Ultimate Good Luck

by Richard Ford

Overview

An atmospheric thriller of menace, eroticism, and psychological revelation.

Harry Quinn and his girlfriend Rae head to Oaxaca, Mexico to spring Rae's brother Sonny from jail and protect him from the sinister durg dealer he is suspected of having double-crossed. But instead of a simple jailbreak, Harry and Rae fall into a nightmarish series of entanglements with ex-pat whores and mute Zapotec Indians. The Cocaine Era's answer to Graham Greene, this exquisitely choreographed novel tracks Rae's and Harry's inexorable descent into the Mexican underworld, where only a stroke of ultimate good luck can keep them alive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307763716
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/01/2010
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	301,336
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

RICHARD FORD is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. Ford's best known titles are The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land, and Let Me Be Frank with You.

Date of Birth:

February 16, 1944

Place of Birth:

Jackson, Mississippi

Education:

B.A., Michigan State University, 1966; M.F.A., University of California, Irvine, 1970

Editorial Reviews

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

"The prose is spare and masterful in its barbed simplicity.... Resonant, moving, and superb" —The Philadelphia Inquirer

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