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El Dorado shuffle / Morgan Nyberg.
LIBRA PR9199.3.N93 E4 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nyberg, Morgan.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 323 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dunvegan, Ont. : Cormorant Books, 1998.
- Summary:
- In a freewheeling city in the Andes Mountains, the forces that contend for possession of an expatriate's soul are certain to do so in a bold, relentless and darkly-comic fashion. Nursing a drinking habit and a consuming guilt over his son's drug addiction, Mac McKnight - cool, ironic, ferociously moral in an off-kilter way - bolts from the winter rains of Vancouver and takes a job teaching high school in Esperanza. Perhaps here he will find peace, an El Dorado of the spirit. In the process, Mac arranges a coup, is seduced by the president's daughter, is almost eviscerated by that same president, flees into the Amazon rainforest, takes part in a doomed raid, is held captive in a brothel, is made a token bigwig in the Ministry of Strangers, and becomes an unwilling player in the cocaine trade. Bad things happen to Mac. But he never quite gives up. He fights back, always unwisely, always hilariously, finally to sink and almost drown in his own moral quicksand. And then he fights back one last time.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 That Esperanza Fog 1
- Chapter 2 The El Dorado Shuffle 18
- Chapter 3 Seduced 33
- Chapter 4 The Caca Cha-Cha 51
- Chapter 5 Big rpm 71
- Chapter 6 Adios 82
- Chapter 7 Everready, Aspirina and a Proper Goodbye 100
- Chapter 8 The Unexpurgated Bomba 114
- Chapter 9 Alive in the City of Hope 129
- Chapter 10 Commandos 147
- Chapter 11 McShite 160
- Chapter 12 Rat's Last Splash 171
- Chapter 13 The Visions of Captain Kaput 183
- Chapter 14 The Ministry of Strangers 195
- Chapter 15 Ondulacion Permanente 212
- Chapter 16 The Nun's Tale 220
- Chapter 17 And When His Strength Failed Him at Length 243
- Chapter 18 Nevermore 257
- Chapter 19 The Foul Rag-and-Bone Shop of the Heart 275
- Chapter 20 The Blazing Blue Bullet of Mac McLightning 290
- Chapter 21 Now This Is the Strange Part 310.
- ISBN:
- 1896951066
- OCLC:
- 38431248
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