Zone of Tolerance

David E Stuart is professor of anthropology and associate provost for academic affairs emeritus, University of New Mexico. Max Evans, the author of twenty-five books, lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received the Owen Wister Award for lifelong contributions to the field of western literature from the Western Writers of America.

Part 1 - Return to Guaymas 1971; Part 2 - Waiting for Marta (Memories of the Zona, 1970); Part 3 - Life Goes On.

""Zone of Tolerance" isn't a sexual exposA(c), but rather a story about the lives of the people who were there, who they really were, and how they wound up there." "Highly personal, humorous, and erotic, the book vividly portrays Stuart's friendships with the ladies of the evening who worked the once-fabled Club R o Rita in a "zona de tolerancia," or red-light district, now long gone." ""Zone of Tolerance" isn't a sexual expos, but rather a story about the lives of the people who were there, who they really were, and how they wound up there." "Stuart presents the complicated layers of his life and his friends' lives--characters you seldom find in a book or encounter otherwise--with rich, mesmerizing detail. This book is a gem." "Stuart...makes the people of Guaymas, Mexico, come alive...he does an excellent job of giving us a feeling for the people and the culture." ""The Guaymas Chronicles is a heck of a book. . . In such a writer and in such a book lies a mighty hope for education and accord out of the clefted differences "The Guaymas Chronicles perceptively, poignantly embodies."