Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the
shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil
and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Set against a
backdrop of an Arizona influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the
westward expansion of the United States, the story is a bravura
performance by the 1989 Nobel Prize-winning author. A monologue by the
naïve, unreliable, and uneducated Wendell L. Espana, the book weaves
together hundreds of characters and a torrent of interconnected
anecdotes, some true, some fabricated. Wendell's story is a document of
the vast array of ills that welcomed the dawning of the twentieth
century, ills that continue to shape our world in the new millennium.