Returning as Shadows

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II

Book Overview

In 1991, Paco Taibo II wrote The Shadow of a Shadow , a book about four men who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City. The time is 1922, and the men are a motley group-a poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicine, a radical Chinese-Mexican union organizer, a lawyer who represents prostitutes, and a newspaper crime reporter who churns out pages of copy "like links of sausage in a chorizo factory." As the story builds,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312301561
• ISBN13: 9780312301569
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 455 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"