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Don Dimaio of La Plata
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Series: Akashic Urban Surreal
HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN13: 9781888451511
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Mar 1 2004
Pages: 205
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
A former student of Robert Coover, Arellano has created a brilliant novel of political satire based on an actual mayoral stint in Providence, RI . . . Recommended for all fiction collections. --Library Journal
Fear and loathing with Don Quixote at your side! Herein another savage journey to the heart of the American dream--but with sabor and saber latino. --Ilan Stavans, author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language
You're walking along the road in La Plata when the fog rolls in. Giant billboards hulk close above while the lights of the city are blotted out one by one. A black limo with the #1 license plate pulls up out of the pea soup and the driver, a goon in a trooper uniform, says, Get een. The back door opens and there he is, all sharkskin suit and slick toupee, kicked back on the leather seat and grinning in a horizontal mirror: Mayor Donald Pally Dimaio. High up in the mist you hear an ape-like shriek: Ook ook ai ai ai! The engine is running. Well, buddy, says Mayor Dimaio, holding out a rolled-up hundred. You want some of this?
Take a bribe and a ride with La Plata's favorite rogue politico through a tripped-out town of strip clubs and drug dens where the heirs of Abraham Beige, original pilgrim, rub shoulders with gun-waving goodfellas who steal their lines from '90s gangster flicks. La Plata is a city for sale, and whether it's a job as a cop or a million-dollar contract you want, Don Dimaio will show you the way.
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