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  • Published: 15 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780767920919
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $39.99
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Mexican Days




Tony Cohan’s On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as—faced with the invasion of the town by tourists and an entire Hollywood movie crew, a magazine editor’s irresistible invitation, and his own incurable wanderlust—Cohan undertakes a richer, wider exploration of the country he has settled in.
Told with the intimate, sensuous insight and broad sweep that captivated readers of On Mexican Time, Mexican Days is set against a changing world as Cohan encounters surprise and adventure in a Mexico both old and new: among the misty mountains and coastal Caribbean towns of Veracruz; the ruins and resorts of Yucatán; the stirring indigenous world of Chiapas; the markets and galleries of Oaxaca; the teeming labyrinth of Mexico City; the remote Sierra Gorda mountains; the haunted city of Guanajuato; and the evocative Mayan ruins of Palenque. Along the way he encounters expatriates and artists, shady operatives and surrealists, and figures from his past.
More than an immensely pleasurable and entertaining travel narrative by one of the most vivid, compelling travel voices to emerge in recent years, Mexican Days is both a celebration of the joys and revelations to be found in this inexhaustibly interesting country and a searching investigation of the Mexican landscape and the grip it is coming to have in the North American imagination.

  • Published: 15 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780767920919
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

About the author

Tony Cohan

TONY COHAN is the author of the bestseller, ON MEXICAN TIME, NATIVE STATE (Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year), and the novels OPIUM and CANARY (New York Times Notable Book of the Year). His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,and Condé Nast Traveler. His song lyrics can be heard on albums by jazz artists like Chick Corea and Al DiMeola. He divides his time between his home in Mexico and Venice, California.

Praise for Mexican Days

“Tony Cohan’s singular novelist’s heart and eye, and the master-craftsmanship of his prose, set him far apart from anyone else today writing about ‘travel.’ Tony Cohan goes through the looking glass beyond ordinary journeying and discovers not just a place, a culture, a history, but the interstices of mood, longing, the beauty and tragedy of the people he finds in that place. He is our pre-eminent explorer of Mexico, and anywhere else he may voyage to.”

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