In this novel of the mestizo, or mixed-blood, Frank Waters completes the Southwestern canvas begun in The Man Who Killed the Deer and People of the Valley. Set in a violent Mexican border town, the story centers on Barby, a tormented mestizo, Guadalupe, the mestiza "percentage-girl," and Tai-Ling, the serene yogi. Their fates mingle though each remains alone-Barby bound to the brute rages of the night; Guadalupe unconscious of all save the sun of her sexuality; Tai-Ling believing it is possible to transcend completely the flow of life.
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My favorite of Frank Waters' novels,
By Victor Valentine "V Valentine" (Gallup, NM, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Yogi At Cockroach Court (Paperback)
The atmosphere of this novel reminded me of the film, "Touch of Evil" by Orson Welles...similarly to that film, there is something almost olfactory in the quality of Frank's writing here which transcends its medium, making the multitudinous savours of sin in old Mexicali Chinatown come alive in an additional dimension...when you know that the dams on the Colorado river changed this region forever (as Frank describes in detail in his classic, THE COLORADO),there is an additional thrilling sense of peering into a vanished place that almost no living being remembers, and that virtually no one else has written about...as well as being classic Southwestern literature, this is also 1940's era literary noir of the highest degree of quality, with a delicious mystical backstory thrown in. This is wonderful old fashioned melodrama, at a high level of artistic skill.
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