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Gringos

by Charles Portis
David Aaron Baker
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With an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd details that comprise your average American, Charles Portis brings to life Jimmy Burns, an expatriate American living in Mexico. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing preColumbian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing-person situation—whatever it takes to remain "the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers." But Jimmy's laid-back lifestyle is being seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker named Louise, whose particular fascination with Jimmy is a mystery to him. Add to this a sudden wave of hippies led by a murderous excon guru in search of psychic happenings, archaeologists unearthing (illegally) the Mayan tombs, and Louise and her weirdo husband's quest for UFO landing sites, and Jimmy's simple south-of-the-border existence is facing clear and present danger.
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Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781705062128
  • File size: 270671 KB
  • Release date: May 3, 2022
  • Duration: 09:23:53

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781705062128
  • File size: 270707 KB
  • Release date: May 3, 2022
  • Duration: 09:29:47
  • Number of parts: 10
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Fiction Literature Humor (Fiction)

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English

With an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd details that comprise your average American, Charles Portis brings to life Jimmy Burns, an expatriate American living in Mexico. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing preColumbian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing-person situation—whatever it takes to remain "the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers." But Jimmy's laid-back lifestyle is being seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker named Louise, whose particular fascination with Jimmy is a mystery to him. Add to this a sudden wave of hippies led by a murderous excon guru in search of psychic happenings, archaeologists unearthing (illegally) the Mayan tombs, and Louise and her weirdo husband's quest for UFO landing sites, and Jimmy's simple south-of-the-border existence is facing clear and present danger.
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Fiction Literature Humor (Fiction)