Fandango: Fandango Rock [Paperback]

Product Details

Paperback
Publisher: Macdonald ; Co (December 31, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0722105770
ISBN-13: 978-0722105771
Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces

Fandango Rock [Paperback]

Client Critiques

Absorbing and effectively-crafted. Significantly of the appeal is the full immersion in the world of 1959: the action takes place at an SAC base in Spain (Hands up those who don't forget what SAC stood for). The Cold War is in full swing, and B-52s are stationed all over the globe prepared to drop H-bombs on anybody who is rash sufficient to drop one particular on the US (recall the "MAD" method?). In spite of this, the focus of the book is mainly on the gigantic culture clash between the US servicemen and the life of the (fictional) town of Medina. This was before the era of low cost vacation flights to Europe, prior to the World wide web, just before cell phones. The vehicles the base officers drive in by way of town are De Sotos and Hispano-Suizas and one particular of them is began by the chauffeur cranking the starting-deal with (Google it).
Of course, we have a really like story - essentially two, and they cross the cultural divide: we have in-depth expositions of the spirit of Spain, all history, dignity, and bullfighting: we have vignettes of the excellent and the bad of Americans overseas in the 1950s: we get an overseas view of American policies which rings surprisingly accurate presently:
"You want everyone to enjoy you and no a single does. You say you appreciate the French and send arms to Algerian rebels who are killing Frenchmen do I hear "Nicaragua" - or quite a few other nations]...If Panama had seized the canal the way Nasser seized Suez your parachutists would have been there much quicker than they arrived in Tiny Rock, but mainly because Suez was only the property of allies you sold them for Arab friendship [refers to the Suez incident in 1956], and more oil. You'd sell the Constitution for oil." [Hmm...he saw GWB coming.]
Lots of political incorrectness, of course: someone thinks the matadors "walk like fairies," the n-word puts in an look (not from Masters, from a character). But it remains an amazingly superior read. Did I mention the detailed account of B-52 missions sweeping across the globe, observed from the cockpit, and the move-by-move detailed choreography of bullfights? And additional...