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The Ultimate Good Luck
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780394750897
Edition: Vintage Contemporaries Ed
ISBN: 0394750896
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: May 12, 1987
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 12, 1987
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico."--New York Times Book Review
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Out of Luck
Never has a book involving cocaine smuggling, at least three murders, and Mexican prisons been so boring or unsatisfying. I've read Ford's Frank Bascombe novels and the difference in the writing and subject matter (to use the old cliche) is night and day while there's no difference at all in the lack of passion in the characters, specifically Harry Quinn, the protagonist.
Harry doesn't care if he gets Sonny out, he only cares about getting himself and his wife Rae out of Mexico alive, which ... Read More
Rating:  - One of my favorite books by my favorite author alive today!
Richard Ford is an incredible writer. His works dig deep into the character's psyche. Ford usually finds his characters in the midst of a down cycle in their lives and explores their personal experience as they deal with life's trauma.
Not the usual novel nonsense where everything ends happily ever after, but a real life portrayal as an individual encounters the nitty gritty essentials of life and confronts the tough choices offered.
Ford is among the best American writers alive ... Read More
Rating:  - Doesn't carry as a novel
Mr. Ford has an excellent prose style and as I began reading the book, I thought it was going to be excellent. The author seems unable to continue with anything interesting and the novel runs out of gas by the half way point. The characters are apathetic regarding their lives and their world and make the reader feel the same. In the end, I no longer cared about the characters (even loathed some of them) and I was happy when I reached the end.
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