The Wonderful Country (Paperback)

Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martin Bredi is returning to El Puerto [El Paso] after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro's business in Texas. Fourteen years earlier -- shortly after the end of the Civil War -- when he was the boy Martin Brady, he killed the man who murdered his father and fled to Mexico where he became Martin Bredi.

Back in Texas Brady breaks a leg; then he falls in love with a married woman while recuperating; and, finally, to right another wrong, he kills a man. When Brady/Bredi returns to Mexico, the Castros distrust him as an American. He becomes a man without a country.

The Wonderful Country clearly depicts life along the Texas-Mexico border of a century-and-a-half ago, when Texas and Mexico were being settled and tamed.

General

Imprint:	Texas Christian University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Texas Tradition Series
Release date:	March 2002
First published:	March 2002
Authors:	Tom Lea
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-87565-255-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-87565-255-7
Barcode:	9780875652559

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