In this sinuous novel by the author of Wild at Heart, a Conradian adventurer becomes involved with smugglers and revolutionaries in a battered Central American city ripe with intrigue and corruption. An allusive and utterly original work, "Port Tropique is an exciting book".--The New York Times Book Review.
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In this sinuous novel by the author of Wild at Heart, a Conradian adventurer becomes involved with smugglers and revolutionaries in a battered Central American city ripe with intrigue and corruption. An allusive and utterly original work, "Port Tropique is an exciting book".--The New York Times Book Review.
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Berkeley. 1986. Black Lizard Books. 1st of this Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0887390129. Introduction by Ed Gorman. 160 pages. paperback. Cover art by Kirwan. keywords: Literature America Mystery Pulp. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Revolution is simmering in the heat of battered Central American town Port Tropique, where protagonist Franz Hall is an 'intellectual Meursault in a paranoid Hemingway landscape, a self-conscious Conradian adventurer, a Lord Jim in the earliest stages of selfwilled failure' (New York Times). The ineffectual hero spends his days drinking and observing people in the zocalo, and occasional nights involved in an ivory-smuggling operation threatened by impending government siege. Always persistent are memories of Marie and what was lost. In this sinuous narrative of dislocation and remorse, Barry Gifford details Franz's mundanity and the bizarre cast of characters swirling around him. inventory #27078.
