Among strange victims
a novel
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Author
Contributions
- MacSweeney, Christina, translator - Contributor
Publication
2016 - Coffee House Press, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
54,500 words, Guess
Page Count
218 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveamongstrangevict0000sald
- ISBN-101566894301
- ISBN-139781566894302
- Library of Congress Control Number2015033493
- OCLC Control Number920018917
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781566894302
- Open LibraryOL27211345M
Classifications
- DDC863/.7
- LCCPQ7298.429.A43 E513 2016
- LCCPQ7298.429.A43E513
Description
"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--
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