{"product_id":"the-cowboy-bible-and-other-carlos-velzazquez-9781632060228","title":"The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carlos Velázquez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632060221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632060228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Restless Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/11\/2016","brand":"Carlos Velázquez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45896880849151,"sku":"9781632060228","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cowboy-bible-and-other-carlos-velzazquez-9781632060228","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}