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Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter
Maria Venegas
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Description for Bulletproof Vest: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter
Paperback. Moving between New York and Mexico, between past and present, this is an unblinking reckoning with a difficult legacy - and an unforgettable introduction to a powerful new literary talent Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
Maria Venegas had been estranged from her father for fourteen years when she finally made the journey back from the US to Mexico to visit him in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. As they begin spending summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fence posts, he starts to share 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 and his extradition from the US for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man ... Read more
Maria Venegas had been estranged from her father for fourteen years when she finally made the journey back from the US to Mexico to visit him in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. As they begin spending summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fence posts, he starts to share 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 and his extradition from the US for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847083470
SKU
V9781847083470
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Ref
99-99
About Maria Venegas
MARIA VENEGEAS was born in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated illegally to the US at four years old. Bulletproof Vest was excerpted in Granta and in the Guardian in 2009. Her short stories have also appeared in Ploughshares and Huizache. She lives in New York.
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