Research Catalog

Title

Bulletproof vest : the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter / Maria Venegas.

Author

Venegas, Maria, 1973-

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

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Details

Description

x, 305 pages : portrait; 24 cm

Summary

"After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence--from the final conversations he had with his own father, to his extradition from the United States for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at the age of twelve"--Amazon.com.

Alternative Title

Bullet-proof vest : the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter

Subject

• Children of criminals > Family relationships > Mexico
• Criminals > Family relationships > Mexico
• Fathers and daughters > Mexico
• Venegas, José Manuel
• Venegas, Maria, 1973-

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Book one. Bulletproof vest -- Handicapped bastard -- Witness protection program -- The hallelujahs -- The grapes of wrath -- Runaway train -- Love, sweet love -- We call police -- The fugitive -- A fine young bull -- You say Jerusalem, I say Paris -- The wall -- Man-in-the-moon marigolds -- House of scorpions -- Cowboy mouth -- Book two. Family portrait -- The museum -- Dust devils -- Blue dress -- Shooting guns like shooting stars -- Quelites -- El Cien Vacas -- Hailstorm -- Book three. The kidnapping -- Starfish -- Blue moon -- Epilogue: El Corrido del Cien Vacas.

ISBN

• 9780374117313 (hbk.)
• 0374117314 (hbk.)
• 9781429944168 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013038777

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library