I'll sell you a dog /
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 residen...
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
And Other Stories,
2016.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "First published as Te vendo un perro in 2014 by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, Spain"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 244 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781908276742 1908276746 |