Bulletproof vest : the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter /
Author / Creator: | Venegas, Maria, 1973- |
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Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. |
Description: | x, 305 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10076297 |
Summary: | A New York Times Editors' Choice book The haunting story of a daughter's struggle to confront her father's turbulent-and often violent-legacy After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing 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, to his extradition from the United States for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at the age of twelve. |
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Physical Description: | x, 305 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9780374117313 0374117314 9781429944168 |