{"product_id":"the-cowboy-bible-and-other-stories-9781632060228","title":"The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carlos Velázquez | Achy Obejas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Restless Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Restless Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999615139991,"sku":"9781632060228","price":735.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781632060228.webp?v=1783601215","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-cowboy-bible-and-other-stories-9781632060228","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}