{"product_id":"9781632060228","title":"The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\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.\" \u003cb\u003e—NPR Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051932008688,"sku":"9781632060228","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632060228_p0.jpg?v=1763673438","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632060228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}