Mexican Days

Journeys into the Heart of Mexico

Tony Cohan

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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
15 July 2007

Travel & holiday

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 Yucatan; 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.

By: Tony Cohan
Imprint: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 243g
ISBN: 9780767920919
ISBN 10: 0767920910
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 July 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

TONY COHAN is the author of On Mexican Time, the memoir Native State (a Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year), and the novels Opium and Canary (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year). His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Conde Nast Traveler. He divides his time between Mexico and California.

Reviews for Mexican Days: Journeys into the Heart of Mexico

Praise for Tony Cohan 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. --Peter Nichols, author of A Voyage for Madmen On Mexican Time Terribly seductive--an enticing and intoxicating vision of Mexico. -- Denver Post Cohan describes life in Mexico as 'intimate, voluptuous, sense driven, ' a phrase that also describes On Mexican Time. -- Boston Sunday Globe On Mexican Time is more than a travelogue, more than a vicarious journey for the reader. It is a gentle reminder to examine our lives and weed out the unnecessary, the chaotic, and the frivolous. --Tennessean