Christ Versus Arizona (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564783417)

Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Set against a backdrop of an Arizona influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the westward expansion of the United States, the story is a bravura performance by the 1989 Nobel Prize-winning author. A monologue by the na ve, unreliable, and uneducated Wendell L. Espana, the book weaves together hundreds of characters and a torrent of interconnected anecdotes, some true, some fabricated. Wendell's story is a document of the vast array of ills that welcomed the dawning of the twentieth century, ills that continue to shape our world in the new millennium.

Author: Camilo Jose Cela
ISBN-10: 1564783413
ISBN-13: 9781564783417
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 249
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.56w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/09/2007 pg. 33
Library Journal 08/01/2007 pg. 64