| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
"A greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce." -- Yuri Herrera Rodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, Among Strange Victims is a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up. "Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd ... like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky's Underground Man." -- John Powers, Fresh Air "Read this messy, shaggy picaresque for its ample page-by-page pleasures, which include devilishly clever syntax, a charming tendency to digress, and satisfying flashes of Rodrigo and Marcelo getting their act together." -- Publisher's Weekly "A welcome infusion of vitality into North American literature." -- Bookslut. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Civil service -- Fiction.
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College teachers -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Fiction.
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Men -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Humorous / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
MacSweeney, Christina, translator.
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| Added Title |
En medio de extrañas víctimas. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saldais, Daniel, 1984- Among strange victims. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2016. 9781566894302 (DLC)2015033493 |
| Standard No. |
9781566894319 |
| ISBN |
9781566894319 (epub) |
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