Among strange victims : a novel /
""His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to laughter, but is present in every phrase of the book, charged...
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Coffee House Press,
2016.
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| Summary: | ""His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to laughter, but is present in every phrase of the book, charged with relentless sardonic irony."-FactorcriticoRodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, Among Strange Victims is a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring-- |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Spanish as En medio de extrañas víctimas by Sexto Piso, Mexico, 2013."--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 218 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781566894302 (paperback) 1566894301 (paperback) |