- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: No Exit Press; 1st, First Edition, First Printing edition (5 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842431315
- ISBN-13: 978-1842431313
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 443,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...a harrowing and moving story of unforgettable characters living, literally, on the edges..." - Robert Stone
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When Fahey, once a great surfer, meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the ragged wasteland between California and Mexico and has barely survived an attack that forced her to flee Tijuana. Fahey takes her in. As they become closer, Magdalena tries to discover who is out to get her, attempting to reconstruct the events that delivered her, battered and confused, into Fahey's strange yet oddly seductive world. Into this no-man's land come a trio of killers led by Armando Santoya, who has marked Magdalena for death. And so will Fahey be put to the test.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
An old soul surfer turned bit of a waster rescues a woman who escaping pursuers from over the border. He is a loner and haunted by his bad past, she's a campaigner for the people and environment of Tijuana. She recovers and they learn to get along, then the men come after her.
I liked all his other books but think this is the best. He really can write. The story is gripping, the characters are great, and the ending satisfies while still being real.
Well written if overly stressing the poverty etc. of the area in a 'tell' rather than 'show' way sometimes. Very evocative descriptions of the area are best shown through his characters, not when he goes off on one with hyperbole.
Not enough actual surfing in the book for me! But surfer or not, you will enjoy this.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Cowabunga, rip and slash!
14 Aug 2004
Format:Hardcover
Having surfed more than 40 years, nothing captures my interest better than a good story about riding waves. I just read this book on Cape Hatteras, NC while on vacation surfing waves generated by Hurricanes Alex and Charley. Still, it wasn't just my personal environment that made this book perfect. It woulda had the same impact if I'd read it in February in Montana. And never been in the ocean.
The novel will instantly stand as one of the Top Five all-time surfing stories. There is a terrific underlying current in the book, which non-surfers might neither understand nor be aware of. Mr. Nunn, defines his characters in an amazing way, using surfing's wide divide between old school (my style) and the new generation (my sons' outlook). Approaches to the waves are almost polar, even while the sport's inherent values and respect for tradition are from the same template.
On the surface, this novel also is a who-done-it thriller that shows Mr. Nunn is a genuinely exceptional writer who displays equal parts Elmore Leonard, Hunter S. Thompson, and John Grisham.
Intricate details, believeable characters, and conversational dialogue add up to a read that moves along as quickly and with as much unpredictability as a 20-foot storm wave.
Cowabunga, old-timers! Rip and slash, dudes! Either way, get up on it, and enjoy the ride.
The novel will instantly stand as one of the Top Five all-time surfing stories. There is a terrific underlying current in the book, which non-surfers might neither understand nor be aware of. Mr. Nunn, defines his characters in an amazing way, using surfing's wide divide between old school (my style) and the new generation (my sons' outlook). Approaches to the waves are almost polar, even while the sport's inherent values and respect for tradition are from the same template.
On the surface, this novel also is a who-done-it thriller that shows Mr. Nunn is a genuinely exceptional writer who displays equal parts Elmore Leonard, Hunter S. Thompson, and John Grisham.
Intricate details, believeable characters, and conversational dialogue add up to a read that moves along as quickly and with as much unpredictability as a 20-foot storm wave.
Cowabunga, old-timers! Rip and slash, dudes! Either way, get up on it, and enjoy the ride.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
One of the Best Books I've Read This Year -- or Any Other
22 Mar 2005
Format:Hardcover
I stumbled across Kem Nunn's "Tapping the Source" almost 20 years ago and absolutely loved it. Then I wandered off for a while. This one made me track down everything he's written since and read it.
Forget "kept me up all night." This book not only kept me up all night (on a work night), but after I finished I immediately went back and re-read a bunch of my favorite parts. Nunn's portrait of the Tijuana estuary, an odd corner of the universe saved from development by pollution and illegal immigration, is fascinating. So is his protagonist, a man with a shattered and blighted life who finds himself in a situation requiring great heroism and rises to the occasion bit by reluctant bit.
"Tapping the Source" was really about the innocence of youth. "Tijuana Flats" is in some ways a polar opposite. Every character has done things they regret and suffered terrible defeats. Some have become monsters as a result, some not.
I loved the surfing lore, but I've never surfed and probably never will (unfortunately) -- you definitely don't have to be a surfer to enjoy this one.
Forget "kept me up all night." This book not only kept me up all night (on a work night), but after I finished I immediately went back and re-read a bunch of my favorite parts. Nunn's portrait of the Tijuana estuary, an odd corner of the universe saved from development by pollution and illegal immigration, is fascinating. So is his protagonist, a man with a shattered and blighted life who finds himself in a situation requiring great heroism and rises to the occasion bit by reluctant bit.
"Tapping the Source" was really about the innocence of youth. "Tijuana Flats" is in some ways a polar opposite. Every character has done things they regret and suffered terrible defeats. Some have become monsters as a result, some not.
I loved the surfing lore, but I've never surfed and probably never will (unfortunately) -- you definitely don't have to be a surfer to enjoy this one.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A Transcendent Read
6 Aug 2004
Format:Hardcover
Kem Nunn has produced another masterpiece. America's most underappreciated writer knows how to combine action with gravity, suspense with philosophy and he demonstrates it here with another great book. In "Tijuana Straits" Nunn not only creates Sam "the Gull," his usual pill-popping ex-surfer with one last chance at redemption, but also, with equal dexterity, Magdalena, the idealistic Mexican Madonna with a passion for social justice, and, most astoundingly, a fully realized, almost sympathetic villian, Armando, the dark shadow of toxic hopelessness. Add to these memorable characters Nunn's beautiful prose, seamless, swift plot and vivid setting and the result is a novel that satisfies on every level. If you want a transcendent read BUY THIS BOOK!
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