ISBN: 0-88739-170-2
190 pp.
Size: 5 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $14.50
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Costa Azul
C. J. Newton
The characters in Costa Azul are after an automobile that has been charged with murder. Justice Alberto Campos, who dreams of making the perfect cup of coffee, leads the crusade, along with jurors, strippers, a prosecutor hoping to be president, or an actor, depending on the strength of his performance, and crazy witnesses.
"The spectators all licked their lips enviously, having heard of this mysterious best of all coffees possible, Elixir, wasn't it? They watched with such concentration that Campos, as if to tease them, set the cup down untasted and picked up another document...."To summarize, you assert that the accused should be tried in the Administrative Court of Automobiles, Trucks, Large Tractors, and Other Axled Conveyances."
Review: "Costa Azul, so vividly and carefully detailed, grows richer and deeper as the novel progresses. We come to believe in its reality. Newton also draws his characters so cleverly that we can understand their motives, anticipate their decisions, and recognize their essential humanity....We accept this land and its people and, with them, the wild farce [Newton] has created."
-Dr. Arthur McMahon,
Professor of English
Bio: C.J. Newton lives north of San Francisco. He has spent abundant amounts of time in Mexico, Central America, and Portugal, all of which have set the stage for Costa Azul.
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