A riotous tale of love and lust, valor and villainy on the Mexican frontier of the 1930s.
Robert Hough's vivid and wildly imaginative novel takes us to 1931 Mexico and Corazon de la Fuente, a war-ravaged border town where the only enterprise is a brothel in which every girl is called Maria. Enter, from north of the border, Dr. Romulus Brinkley, inventor of a miraculous "goat gland operation" said to cure sexual impotence. When Brinkley decides to build a gargantuan new radio tower to broadcast his services throughout the United States, he chooses none other than Corazon de la Fuente for its site.
The town's fortunes change overnight, but not all to the good - word of the new prosperity spreads, and Corazon is overrun with desperadoes and mercenaries itching to reopen old wounds. Worst of all, Dr. Brinkley has attracted the affections of the town's most beautiful citizen, Violeta Cruz. But with the help of a motley band of allies, Violeta's spurned fiance, Francisco, decides to fight back.
Inspired by the monstrous shenanigans of a real life American con man and peopled with unforgettable characters, Dr. Brinkley's Tower captures a young Mexico caught between its own ambitions and the designs of its wealthier neighbor to the north.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Robert Hough's vivid and wildly imaginative novel takes us to 1931 Mexico and Corazon de la Fuente, a war-ravaged border town where the only enterprise is a brothel in which every girl is called Maria. Enter, from north of the border, Dr. Romulus Brinkley, inventor of a miraculous "goat gland operation" said to cure sexual impotence. When Brinkley decides to build a gargantuan new radio tower to broadcast his services throughout the United States, he chooses none other than Corazon de la Fuente for its site.
The town's fortunes change overnight, but not all to the good - word of the new prosperity spreads, and Corazon is overrun with desperadoes and mercenaries itching to reopen old wounds. Worst of all, Dr. Brinkley has attracted the affections of the town's most beautiful citizen, Violeta Cruz. But with the help of a motley band of allies, Violeta's spurned fiance, Francisco, decides to fight back.
Inspired by the monstrous shenanigans of a real life American con man and peopled with unforgettable characters, Dr. Brinkley's Tower captures a young Mexico caught between its own ambitions and the designs of its wealthier neighbor to the north.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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