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Gringos by Charles Portis

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Also by Charles Portis:

Escape Velocity, October 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
True Grit, November 2010
Trade Size (reprint)
The Dog Of The South, June 2007
Paperback (reprint)
Gringos, May 2000
Paperback (reprint)
Norwood, August 1999
Paperback (reprint)

GRINGOS
By: Charles Portis

Overlook Press
May 2000
On Sale: May 1, 2000
Featuring: Jimmy Burns
269 pages
ISBN: 1585670936
EAN: 9781585670932
Paperback (reprint)
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Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situationβ€”whatever it takes to remain "the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers." But when Jimmy's laid-back lifestyle is seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker called Louise, a sudden wave of "hippies" (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search of psychic happenings, and a group of archaeologists who are unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his simple South-of-the-Border existence faces a clear and present danger.