FUENTES, CARLOS — Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374128863. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright, with only a small patch of discoloration to the reverse of the rear panel and some beginning bumping to the top spine end. "His 1985 novel The Old Gringo (Gringo viejo) , loosely based on American author Ambrose Bierce's disappearance during the Mexican Revolution, became the first U. S. Bestseller written by a Mexican author. The novel tells the story of Harriet Winslow, a young American woman who travels to Mexico, and finds herself in the company of an aging American journalist (called only "the old gringo") and Tomás Arroyo, a revolutionary general. Like many of Fuentes' works, it explores the way in which revolutionary ideals become corrupted, as Arroyo chooses to pursue the deed to an estate where he once worked as a servant rather than follow the goals of the revolution. In 1989, the novel was adapted into the U. S. Film Old Gringo starring Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda, and Jimmy Smits. A long profile of Fuentes in the U. S. Magazine, "Mother Jones," describes the filming of "The Old Gringo" in Mexico with Fuentes on the set. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .