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Among strange victims : a novel
- Title
- Among strange victims : a novel / by Daniel Saldaña París ; translated by Christina MacSweeney.
- Author
- Saldaña París, Daniel, 1984-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-4175 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- MacSweeney, Christina
- Description
- 218 pages; 21 cm
- 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--
- Uniform Title
- En medio de extrañas víctimas. English
- Alternative Title
- En medio de extrañas víctimas.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Originally published in Spanish as En medio de extrañas víctimas by Sexto Piso, Mexico, 2013."--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-4175
- ISBN
- 9781566894302 (paperback)
- 1566894301 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2015033493
- OCLC
- 920018917
- 920018917
- Author
- Saldaña París, Daniel, 1984- author.
- Title
- Among strange victims : a novel / by Daniel Saldaña París ; translated by Christina MacSweeney.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- MacSweeney, Christina, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-4175