Mile Zero - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Thomas Sanchez (Paperback)

About the Book

"Mile zero" marks the location of Key West--the island that defines the end of the American road, the cultural junction where Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Afro worlds collide. Here lives St. Cloud, and American expatriate in his own country. Chronicling St. Cloud's dangerous reawakening. Mile Zero illuminates the inward and outward tumult of our time in a huge, startling, and profoundly felt novel.

Book Synopsis

On the island of Key West lives St. Cloud, an American expatriated in his own country, a fugitive from the unresolved anguish of his generation. This book illuminates the inward and outward tumult of our time.

Review Quotes

"Dazzling...a comic masterpiece crackling with backhanded wit... bursting with vital characters...a novel of uncommon richness....Its brilliantly contrived plot uncoils with the suspense of a thriller."
--New York Times Book Review

"A holy terror of a book...[It has] immense power and passion.... Half mystery, half panegyric and wholly one of a kind, Mile Zero is [a] fascinating novel about the end of the American road and the beginnings of a new world."
--Washington Post Book World

"A mythmaking and magisterial novel." --Vanity Fair

About the Author

Thomas Sanchez lived for many years in Key West, Mallorca, and Paris, where the French Republic awarded him the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. He currently resides in Key West. He is the author of King Bongo, Mile Zero, Day of the Bees, Zoot-Suit Murders and Rabbit Boss, which was named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most important books of the twentieth century.