{"product_id":"the-cowboy-bible-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarlos Velázquez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAchy Obejas\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe English-language debut of \"one of the most original and entertaining voices in contemporary Mexican literature\" (\u003ci\u003eRevista Gatopardo\u003c\/i\u003e): a collection of surreal, ironic, and madcap stories about the comedy and brutality of life in Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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\" (\u003ci\u003eDiario Jornada\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"an icon\" (\u003ci\u003eFrente\u003c\/i\u003e). In these seven surreal and unsettling tales, he portrays the comedy and brutality of a region that has captivated the North American imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAkin 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 \u003ci\u003eluchador\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Cowboy Bible\u003c\/i\u003e is a brazen commentary on modern Mexican reality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Coahuila, Mexico in 1978, \u003cb\u003eCarlos Velázquez \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of story collections\u003ci\u003e Cuco Sánchez blues\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eLa biblia vaquera\u003c\/i\u003e (named one of the books of the year by Reforma in 2009), and \u003ci\u003eLa marrana negra de la literatura rosa\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). He received the Premio Nacional de Cuento Magdalena Mondragón and has been anthologized in el Fondo de Cultura Económica's Anuario de poesia mexicana 2007. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born in Havana, Cuba, \u003cb\u003eAchy Obejas\u003c\/b\u003e has written fiction, poetry, and journalism. She is the author of five books, including three novels: \u003ci\u003eDays of Awe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemory Mambo\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRuins\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry chapbook, \u003ci\u003eThis is What Happened in Our Other Life\u003c\/i\u003e, was both a critical favorite and a bestseller. She is trained as a journalist and has worked in the alternative press, including \u003ci\u003eIn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThese Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where she writes a monthly column, and \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e. A translator between Spanish and English, she translated into Spanish Junot Díaz's \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis is How You Lose Her\u003c\/i\u003e and into English such contemporary Latin American writers as Rita Indiana, F. G. Haghenbeck, and Wendy Guerra. She is the recipient of a USA Ford Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellowship, a team Pulitzer Prize for the series \"Gateway to Gridlock\" while at the \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, the Studs Terkel Journalism Award, and a Cintas Foundation Fellowship. She is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland, California.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.1 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 26, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726014222399,"sku":"9781632060228","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/29d53cba63f9fe2634cd45714bbe3982.webp?v=1765108886","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-cowboy-bible-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}