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The last great road bum / Héctor Tobar.
"In The last great road bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois who died fighting with guerillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374183424 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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| Subject: | Travelers > Fiction. Americans > El Salvador > Fiction. El Salvador > History > Civil War, 1979-1992 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Action and adventure fiction. Historical fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Tobar | 31681010206977 | FICTION | Available | - |
Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prizeâwinning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark, as well as The Barbarian Nurseries, Translation Nation, and The Tattooed Soldier. Tobar is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He has written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, L.A. Noir, ZYZZYVA, and Slate. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family.
