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Dr. Brinkley's tower [electronic resource] / Robert Hough.

Summary:

Equal parts Mark Twain and Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Hough's wildly imaginative new novel takes us to 1931 and Corazon de la Fuente, a tiny Mexican border town where the only industry is a run-down brothel. Enter Dr. Romulus Brinkley and his gargantuan radio tower, built to broadcast his revolutionary goat-gland fertility operation. Fortunes in Corazon change overnight, but not all for the good. Word of the new prosperity spreads, and the town is overrun by the impoverished, the desperate, and the flat-out criminal. The tower's frequencies are so powerful the whole area glows green, and t.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781770890527
  • ISBN: 1770890521
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.) : map.
  • Publisher: Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2012.

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General Note:
Contains questions for discussion.
Subject: Radio broadcasting > Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling > Fiction.
FICTION / General
Radio broadcasting.
Swindlers and swindling.
Genre: Electronic books.
Fiction.

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