Description: Cowboy Bible and Other Stories, Paperback by Velazquez, Carlos; Obejas, Achy (TRN), ISBN 1632060221, ISBN-13 9781632060228, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "A mix of such otherworldly scenarios, pop culture references and linguistic inventiveness comes remarkably together for a brazen social and political commentary on modern Mexican reality." —NPR Books The English-language debut of “one of the most original and entertaining voices in contemporary Mexican literature” (Revista Gatopardo): a collection of surreal, ironic, and madcap stories about the comedy and brutality of life in Mexico. The provocateur and cult sensation Carlos Velázquez has earned comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs, and has been called “a grand storyteller” (Diario Jornada) and “an icon” (Frente). In these seven surreal and unsettling tales, he portrays the comedy and brutality of a region that has captivated the North American imagination. Akin to Márquez’s Macondo or Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, Velázquez’s PopSTock! is a fictional territory in a familiar but strange northern Mexico. Throughout the stories is woven the Cowboy Bible—a mystical and protean object that first appears as the talisman of a Santería-practicing luchador, DJ, and art critic, then later morphs into an unbeatable marathon drinker, a scion of a fried-chicken vendor dynasty who becomes a Communist guerilla freedom fighter, and the leather for a pair of boots so coveted that it leads a man to grant the devil a night with his wife. With such otherworldly scenarios, pop-culture panache, and Velázquez’s linguistic inventiveness, The Cowboy Bible is a brazen commentary on modern Mexican reality.
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Book Title: Cowboy Bibles and Other Stories
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Restless Books
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Hispanic & Latino, Short Stories (Single Author)
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 5.6 Oz
Author: Carlos Velazquez
Item Length: 7.1 in
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
