Gringo Viejo / Old Gringo (Paperback)

from lamour

Ambrose Bierce, an American short story writer, went into Mexico in 1914 to cover the Mexican Revolution by finding and traveling with Poncho Villa. He disappeared without a trace. Fuentes has written this novel in which he suggests what may have happened to Bierce. Not the easiest read as Fuente...

from BookConcierge

The novel is framed as the reminiscence of a woman. An old journalist heads to Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution seeking, not a story, but his death. He joins with a band of Pancho Villa's guerilla fighters, led by General Tomas Arroyo, and witnesses events as they destroy all but ...

from SeriousGrace

Everything about this story was deceiving. Despite the fact it was written in 1985 it has an old world language and culture to it. The time frame is supposed to take place in 1914 but to read it, it wasn't full of new language trying to sound ancient. Despite the fact it is only 199 pages long it...

from FPdC

In 1913 the american writer and journalist Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce, then seventy one years old, decided he was old and tired, but didn't want to die of some accident or illness. In his last letter to a friend he wrote "To be a gringo in Mexico -- ah, that is euthanasia." He crossed the border to ...

from The_Hibernator

The Old Gringo is a biographical novel about the alleged disappearance of Ambrose Bierce in Mexico during the revolution. Bierce travels to Mexico because he wants to be killed--and to be a good-looking corpse. Despite these simple desires, Bierce ends up in a dangerous triangle with a General of...