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Author Villalobos, Juan Pablo, 1973- author.

Title I'll sell you a dog / Juan Pablo Villalobos ; translated by Rosalind Harvey.

Publication Info. Los Angeles : And Other Stories, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F VILLALOBOS, J.    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F VILLALOB    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION VILLALOBAS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC VILLALOBOS, J    Check Shelf
Description 244 pages ; 20 cm
Note "First published as Te vendo un perro in 2014 by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, Spain"--Title page verso.
Summary Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home, where fending off boredom is far more grueling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building's lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist, Villalobos's old man can't help but misbehave: he antagonises his neighbors, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno, and flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer.
Subject Older people -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Humorous fiction.
Satirical literature.
Added Author Harvey, Rosalind, 1982- translator.
Added Title Te vendo un perro. English
I will sell you a dog
ISBN 9781908276742 (paperback)
1908276746 (paperback)
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