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Dr. Brinkley's Tower

Robert Hough

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#7962 of 8,085 books · #1055 in Historical Fiction

Longlisted for the Giller Prize (2012).

In the 1931 war-ravaged Mexico border town of Corazon de la Fuente, where the only enterprise in town is a brothel, Dr. Romulus Brinkley decides to build a gargantuan new radio tower to broadcast his miraculous "goat gland operation" said to cure sexual impotence.

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Publisher
House of Anansi Press
ISBN-13
9780887843198
Topics
Small-town lifeQuack medicine and exploitationCommunity transformation

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