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: |
Kessinger Publishing Co
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2007 |
First published: |
September 2007 |
Authors: |
Tom Lea
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-548-43962-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-548-43962-1 |
Barcode: |
9780548439623 |
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