| I'll Sell You a Dog Contributor(s): Villalobos, Juan Pablo (Author), Harvey, Rosalind (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1908276746 ISBN-13: 9781908276742 Publisher: And Other Stories OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. A delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity, I'll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos. |
