Pinto and Sons

by Leslie Epstein

Book Overview

Pinto and Sons is an ironic black comedy that follows Pinto, a Hungarian Jew and former medical student, who takes the wrong ship and winds up out West during the craze of the California Gold Rush. Never discouraged, he tries to bring scientific enlightenment to a band of boys from the local Modoc Indian tribe. But strikes and explosions erupt at the nearby gold mine where the Modocs have been enslaved, turning his attempt at utopia into Dante's hell...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395547040
• ISBN13: 9780395547045
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.