登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The Wonderful Country
Tom Lea
出版Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017-06-28
主題Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & OutlawsBiography & Autobiography / Rich & FamousSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American StudiesHistory / United States / 19th Century
ISBN17872057039781787205703
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RA0qDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋Originally published in 1952, Tom Lea’s The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martín 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 Martín 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.