Description |
244 pages ; 20 cm |
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"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.
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Artists -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- Fiction.
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Mexico -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction.
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Satirical literature.
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Added Author |
Harvey, Rosalind, 1982- translator.
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Added Title |
Te vendo un perro. English
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I will sell you a dog |
ISBN |
9781908276742 (paperback) |
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1908276746 (paperback) |
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