I'll Sell You a Dog
Los Angeles : And Other Stories, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: 244 pages ; 20 cm
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.
Subjects:
Older people -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Fiction.
Older people -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Mexico -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781908276742
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Villalobos | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
F Villalobos | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
"First published as Te vendo un perro in 2014 by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, Spain"--Title page verso.