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    The Ultimate Good Luck

    Part of Vintage Contemporaries

    Author Richard Ford
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale May 12, 1987 | 208 Pages | 9780394750897
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    In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.

    "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--The New York Times Book Review
    © Robert Yager
    Richard Ford is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. He lives in New York and Maine. Ford's best known titles are The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land, and Let Me Be Frank with You.  View titles by Richard Ford
    "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico." —The New York Times Book Review

    "The prose is spare and masterful in its barbed simplicity.... Resonant, moving, and superb" —The Philadelphia Inquirer

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    In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him.

    "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--The New York Times Book Review

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    © Robert Yager
    Richard Ford is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. He lives in New York and Maine. Ford's best known titles are The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land, and Let Me Be Frank with You.  View titles by Richard Ford

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    "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico." —The New York Times Book Review

    "The prose is spare and masterful in its barbed simplicity.... Resonant, moving, and superb" —The Philadelphia Inquirer

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