I'll Sell You A Dog

by Juan Pablo Villalobos

2021-01-06 03:00:07

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 ... Read more
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. A delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity, I’ll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos. Less

Book Details

File size7.8 X 5.27 X 0.76 in
Print pages256
PublisherAnd Other Stories
Publication date August 19, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781908276742
Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He lives in Brazil, and has two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. Down the Rabbit Hole is his first novel. It was published in...

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