So Long, John Wayne

Jose Miguel is a decorated lifeguard living alone in a trailer outside of Los Angeles, haunted by the memory of his last summer in Peru. His life's ambition had once been simple. By charming, persuading, or wearing down his affluent family and friends, as well as the dedicated teachers at his socially conscious Catholic School for boys, he had bent the world to his will. Until he was confronted by the startling presence of Joe the American. Intrigued by the hostility of the sullen New Yorker, Jose Miguel embarks on a mission to teach him how to savor life like a Peruvian. But as a tenuous friendship forms between the boys, Jose Miguel finds himself gripped by a relentless obsession that threatens to destroy his American friend and remove Jose Miguel from his place in the world. Set in Peru's colonial haciendas, in its boisterous barrios, and in the monster surf that crashes into the rocks below the pastel-painted fishing villages outside Lima, So Long John Wayne is a story of how a boy chooses to become a man. This description may be from another edition of this product.