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The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories

The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories

Velázquez, Carlos
Obejas, Achy

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ISBN10: 1632060221
ISBN13: 9781632060228
Publisher: Restless Books
Published: Jan 26 2016
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.10
Language: English

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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