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Among strange victims : a novel / by Daniel Saldaña París ; translated by Christina MacSweeney.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ7298.429.A43 E513 2016 | Off-site |
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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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- "Originally published in Spanish as En medio de extrañas víctimas by Sexto Piso, Mexico, 2013."--Title page verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781566894302 (paperback)
- 1566894301 (paperback)
- LCCN
- ^^2015033493
- OCLC
- 920018917
- SCSB-12855682
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library