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2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Pelletier, Espinoza, and Norton traveled from Paris to Mexico City, where El Cerdo was waiting."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Instead, and without saying anything to her two friends, she called Almendro’s number in Mexico City and, after some fruitless efforts (El Cerdo’s secretary and then his maid couldn’t speak English, although both tried) she managed to reach him."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"At the hotel, when he got back, Pelletier was always on the terrace or at the pool or sprawled in an armchair in one of the lounges, rereading Saint Thomas or The Blind Woman or Lethaea, which were, it seemed, the only books by Archimboldi he’d brought with him to Mexico."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Here, in Santa Teresa?' asked Fate. 'No, man, in Mexico City. The arm of the killers is long, very long,' said Guadalupe Roncal."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"…Luckily someone I work with in Mexico City had given me the address of this hotel."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Then there was a street in a big Mexican city at dusk, probably Mexico City, a street swept by rain, cars parked along the curb, stores with their metal gates lowered"

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"I was born in Guadalajara and I studied in Mexico City and then in San Francisco, at Berkeley."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"During the day there wasn’t a soul to be seen in El Chile or the surrounding fields soon to be swallowed up by the dump. At night those who had nothing or less than nothing ventured out. In Mexico City they call them teporochos, but a teporocho is a survivor."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Around this time the Mexico City newspaper La Razón sent Sergio González to write a story on the Penitent."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Fifteen days after his arrival at the Santa Teresa prison, Haas held what could be called his first press conference, attended by four reporters from Mexico City and almost all the print media of the state of Sonora."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"…unburden yourself, in Mexico there’s no death penalty, get it off your chest…"

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"the girl said: 'the Aztecs, the people who lived in Mexico before Cortés came."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"on a walk to Colonia Guerrero, in Mexico City, where the two go in search of the so-called King of the Rent Boys."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Soon afterward he left the park and the next morning he was on his way to Mexico."

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"Low-rise housing. Mexico City in 1949. Miami in 1980."

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"Brad Handler: The reason goes back to the Spanish control of California—through Mexico. The law in Spain, through Mexico, to the California territory did not allow what we now call 'covenants not to compete."

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"I said I thought Eddie had probably gone back to Japan. Or to Mexico, where he had said earlier that he wanted to go."

The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West

"He had been getting pamphlets in the mail from a travel bureau and he thought of the trips he would never take. Mexico was only a few hundred miles away. Boats left daily for Hawaii."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"“Mexico City, Guadalajara.”"

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"“Let’s go to Mexico city tonight,” BZ said."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"They have been in strange countries–Japan, Mexico, South America, and those queer islands which it is so hard to remember geographically."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"There were crates of chickens, hampers of fresh fruits and vegetables, hampers of canned goods and vintage wines that had already traveled from Europe by ship, and from Veracruz and Mexico City by train, diligence, and packhorse."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"I have been keeping back this letter for the post that leaves tomorrow for Mexico City."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"she rode the two hundred and fifty miles to Mexico City in a little over five days, and on the way, literally writing and drawing in the saddle, made all the notes and some of the sketches for a third Century article."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Hecho en Mejico,' he said. 'Yes. She’s one thing we got out of that."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"“So it’s certain that he at least isn’t going to ask you to do any more in Mexico.”"

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"…the hunt ended, down across the line in Mexico, with the murderer swinging from a tree."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"“Years ago, when we left you in Leadville and went to Mexico, I fell in love with Mexican civilization, and the grace of their housekeeping, and the romantic medieval way they lived…”"

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"“She lived in Boise alone for nearly two years, while he was working in Mexico.”"

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"Then the soldiers went to Mexico and it was a kind of painful picnic."

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"Pershing’s expedition into Mexico after Villa had exploded one of our myths for a little while."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"I’d bought the cheese three days ago in Mexico City before the long cheap bus trip across Zacatecas and Durango and Chihuahua two thousand long miles to the border at El Paso."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico"

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"I've got my full rucksack pack and it's spring, I'm going to go southwest to the dry land, to the long lone land of Texas and Chihuahua and the gay streets of Mexico night, music coming out of doors, girls, wine, weed, wild hats, viva!"

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"I could see all of Mexico, all of Chihuahua, the entire sand-glittering desert of it, under a late sinking moon…"

Fat City
by Leonard Gardner

"…der hat mir die ganze Zeit nur Geld aus der Tasche gezogen, und ist dann nach Mexiko. Weißt du, wo er jetzt steht? Weißt du das? Rang zehn."

Fat City
by Leonard Gardner

"Als er in Mexico City ankam, war er ein erwachsener Mann, ein routinierter und berechnender Puncher, dessen breites vernarbtes Indianergesicht eine Menge Erfahrung verriet."

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"…he’d been a master stonecutter in Mexico City, where he’d worked only on churches."

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"…headed east on Polk toward the Mecca Hills, where the wide irrigation canal went south, all the way to the border with Mexico."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"that strange man who had traveled from Mexico to California spreading his seed."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"I went to Yale. . . . And from there—where?—oh, yes, Mexico!"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"At the house of Doña Mercedes, in Mexico (she was a grand Spanish woman, with a bosom which expanded yearly, to house, I told her, her gigantic Heart)—at her house, where I stayed briefly, there was a charming houseboy."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Her fingertips transported her, fleetingly, to Mexico City, where these porcelain squares would be weather-beaten and cracked, decorating gazebos and doorways."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"In El Distrito Federal, these clothes would cost a fortune; if you could find them at all it would be in the marble-floored malls in the affluent satellite fringes where there was valet parking at the front doors and perfume piped into the air ducts."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Araceli wore the boxy, nurselike uniform called a filipina that was standard for domestics in Mexico City."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"…each time Araceli heard these feminine voices she remembered the room in Mexico City she’d shared with her older sister"

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Araceli would give anything to be back in Mexico City on one of those summer days when balls of white drift across the blue canvas of the sky."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Octavio Covarrubias was reading, in a conspicuous display of his lefty bona fides, the Sunday edition of the Mexico City daily newspaper La Jornada, which he received by mail every week."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Araceli had left Mexico City just as the cell phone craze had taken off, and had never owned such a device."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Araceli was in a deep sleep on the floor in the Room of a Thousand Wonders, dreaming that she was walking through the corridors of her art school in Mexico City, which did not resemble her art school at all, but rather a factory in a desolate corner of an American city."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Araceli had a photograph like this of her mother in Mexico City, a snapshot taken by one of those men with the big Polaroids in the Zócalo, when her mother was a young woman recently arrived from provincial Hidalgo."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"a ruggedly handsome man in his forties who greeted her with a chivalrous “Buenos días” and the same pencil-thin mustache and jaunty smile that had broken hearts when he left Mexico City two decades earlier."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Probably they were already wearing these things in Mexico City, or would soon be, Araceli thought."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Araceli was from Mexico City, if Maureen remembered correctly."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"until she landed at the airport in Mexico City"

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"I can do that too, and slip back across the city, and maybe back to Mexico, with a little stop at the bank to get my money."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"… and eventually back to Mexico."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"He would fit in in Mexico City, except for the fact that he’s clapping and crying at the same time—in my city, we are either happy or morose but rarely both at the same time."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Carlos Francisco Batres Goulet had been in Malibu in the morning, having flown out from Mexico City to interview a Mexican actress who was a big crossover success in the United States."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"…here’s another I had made for you and sent from the Distrito Federal."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"“To Tucson if we go to Mexico.”"

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"Three hours later it’s in Mexico."

There There
by Tommy Orange

"…in a world meant to resemble the real Indian world in the 1500s in Mexico. Mexicans before they were Mexicans. Before Spain came."

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"Though he still felt like shit, like some experiment gone wrong in the subbasement of the Laboratorio Medico in Mexico City, Cándido did manage to rouse himself sufficiently to move their poor camp upstream, out of harm’s way."

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"…her suffering was nothing compared to the tribulations of the saints or the people living in the streets of Mexico City and Tijuana, crippled and abandoned by God and man alike."

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"he wasn’t even sure, in terms of geography, where exactly Oregon was and what relation it bore to California, Baja and the rest of Mexico."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"Some say he went to Mexico and some say he went to Canada or London."

Under the Feet of Jesus
by Helena Maria Viramontes

"It was her father who’d ran away, gone to Mexico, the mother said at first, to bury an uncle just as they settled in a city apartment with the hope of never seeing another labor camp again."

The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner

"There had been talk of Mexico between Vena and Bo and, before heading there, a quick stop off at Vena’s place to kill her husband, Mack."

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"Jesús reads my tag, his voice soft. ‘Are you from Mexico?’"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"There were other photographs—youngmen in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, America . . ."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"“Did Lupita go back to Mexico?” “What part of Mexico is she from? Is it the same time there as it is here? Can we call her?”"

Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler

"…killing people from Floidra to Texas and down iMntoexico."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"But his brief remarks only strengthened Goller’s resolve to shuffle her off U.S. soil and on her way to Mexico as soon as possible."

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"‘Mexicans,’ Delaney said, and there was no hesitation anymore, no reluctance to identify people by their ethnicity. Later, the conversation turned as Kyra asked, “But whose constitution—Mexico’s? Did Mexico even have a constitution?”"

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"he insisted on going to eat something typical, my last night in Mexico, what do you say we get some Mexican food?"

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"My mother's been feeling sick, and she asked me to take her down there to Mexico for a few days."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"It wants to pollute here, and in Mexico, and in China, and wherever else it does its business."

Pirate Latitudes
by Michael Crichton

"The remaining three chests were filled with silver bars from Mexico."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"By then would they all be wearing Mexican clothes and taking all this Mexican courtliness for granted, acting like Don Gustavo, who had been in Mexico twenty years and wished it to appear that he had been there two hundred?"

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"she had previously done for New Almaden, Santa Cruz, Mexico, and the canyon."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"Haven't you seen Ray's new book of poems he just wrote in Mexico—"the wheel of the quivering meat conception turns in the void expelling tics, porcupines, elephants, people, stardusts, fools, nonsense . . ."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"To be in some river bottom somewhere, or in a desert, or in mountains, or in some hut in Mexico or shack in Adirondack, and rest and be kind, and do nothing else, practice what the Chinese call "do-nothing."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"In Mexico bosses did not give their employees choices, and ambiguous statements like Maureen’s were a common way around the unpleasantness of a direct command."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Araceli knew that her fate ended in Mexico, that at the end of her current visit to purgatory she would step into the disorderly but familiar sunshine of a Mexican border town, and that afterward she would walk to a bus station or a telephone booth and decide what to do next."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"In fact, I will tell you that I want to stay here, and not accept the very generous offer to be deported directly to Mexico, because Los Estados Unidos de América is a country where women can wear boots like that."

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"He couldn’t go back to Mexico, a country with forty percent unemployment and a million people a year entering the labor force, a country that was corrupt and bankrupt and so pinched by inflation that the farmers were burning their crops and nobody but the rich had enough to eat."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"Later that night, as my grandmother lay in her bed, the others continued their conversations, talking about Mexico and bullfights and bad movies."

Prey
by Michael Crichton

"The recent report that modified maize genes now appear in native maize in Mexico-despite laws against it, and efforts to prevent it-is just the start of what we may expect to be a long and difficult journey to control our technology."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"“Would you consider Mexico?”"

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"“…Cahuilla lived everywhere. Mexico and California was all the same land till somebody made up a border.”"

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"I came home from school and told her I had to write a report on Mexico–how Mexicans live, or something about Mexican heroes, or some incident from Cortez and Montezuma."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"she goes to Mexico for two months"