Publication

1995 - Picador USA, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

94,500 words, Guess

Page Count

378 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivefourhands00taib_0
  • ISBN-100312130791
  • ISBN-139780312130794
  • Goodreads59560
  • Library of Congress Control Number95016053
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC863
  • LCCPQ7298.3.A58 C8313 1995
  • LCCPQ7298.3.A58C8313

Description

St. Martin's Press is proud to publish the first English translation of a major literary novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, whose previous appearances in this country have been this leading Mexican author's crime novels. The "four hands" are those of two world-ranging journalists, one Mexican and one American. It is these two men who provide the initially improbable links between such disparate elements of Taibo's amazing novel as Stan Laurel's witnessing the assassination of Pancho Villa; the Disinformation Operation of an anonymous group in New York who approach their dingy office up a fire escape; the discovery of Leon Trotsky's notes for the crime novel he was writing when he was murdered in Mexico; the stupefying thesis proposals of graduate student Elena Jordan; an episode in the Contra war in Nicaragua; and the Spanish miner's takeover of a coal mine in the thirties.

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  • Four handsPicador USA1995

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