{"product_id":"tales-from-the-desert-borderland-paperback-2","title":"Tales from the Desert Borderland - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLawrence J. Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMaeve Hickey\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US\/Mexico desert border. In these linked short stories, readers are taken on a wild ride from San Diego to Nogales, into Mexican and Chicano neighborhoods, failed spas and defunct mining towns, rambling Native American reservations and besieged Wildlife Refuges. Along the way they will share the conflicts, calamities, and occasional triumph of an engaging cast of characters. While these tales treat such familiar border themes as drug- and people-smuggling or hybrid and conflicting cultures and identities, they do so with a literary flair that revels in the rich diversity of border life as well as in its ambiguity, ambivalence, irony and often unexpected humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawrence J. Taylor\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Ireland. The author of classic ethnographies \u003ci\u003eDutchmen on the Bay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOccasions of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e, Taylor has been working and writing on the US\/Mexico border since the mid-1990s, publishing first \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Mexico \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), followed by the prize-winning account of liminal border lives, \u003ci\u003eTunnel Kids \u003c\/i\u003e(2001) and \u003ci\u003eAmbos Nogales: Intimate Portraits of the US\/Mexico Border \u003c\/i\u003e (2002). As in this volume, each of these books was produced in collaboration with artist Maeve Hickey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 167\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47386572423417,"sku":"9783030351328","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dO5w1wZ-TR9783030351328_ed27d910-f577-43e1-86ae-36a30d867d7f.webp?v=1770189534","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/tales-from-the-desert-borderland-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}