Gringos
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Gringos is a darkly comic novel by Charles Portis that follows an American expatriate and tomb raider entangled in eccentric adventures in Mexico.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gringos canonical | 1 |
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literaryWork
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Charles Portis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| followsCharacterType | American expatriate ⓘ |
| genre |
comic novel
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dark comedy ⓘ picaresque novel ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
critical acclaim for humor and style
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cult following ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780394584441 ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | 300 ⓘ |
| hasTone | darkly comic ⓘ |
| includesTheme |
adventure
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cultural clash ⓘ expatriate life ⓘ identity ⓘ obsession with the past ⓘ satire of American culture ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jimmy Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorBibliography | works of Charles Portis ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation |
salvage operator
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tomb raider ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
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