Mile Zero
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ISBN: 0679732608 / Publisher: Vintage, October 1990
A disaffected American horrified by his country's involvement in Vietnam moves to Key West, a nightmarish place besieged by Latin drug dealers, freebooting treasure hunters, and improverished immigrants
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"Mile zero" marks the location of Key West -- the island that defines the end of the American road, the cultural junction where Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Afro worlds collide. On this island, with its cruel legacy of slave trade and Latin revolution, and its turbulent present of marijuana millionaires, threadbare illegal immigrants, and hard-luck treasure hunters, lives St. Cloud, an American expatriated in his own country, a fugitive from the unresolved anguish of his generation. Chronicling St. Cloud's dangerous reawakening, Mile Zero illuminates the inward and outward tumult of our time in a huge, startling, and profoundly felt novel.
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