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The Guillotine squad / Guillermo Arriaga ; translated by Alan Page.
Van Pelt Library PQ7298.1.R753 E7313 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arriaga Jordán, Guillermo, 1958-
- Standardized Title:
- Escuadrón Guillotina. English
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 179 pages ; 21cm
- Edition:
- First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Washington Square, 2007.
- Summary:
- Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, "The Guillotine Squad" takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells his famous invention, the guillotine, to Pancho Villa, the renowned insurgent general of the Mexican Revolution. Soon Feliciano finds himself immersed in the logic of this simultaneously bizarre, heroic, and cruel world of Villa's troops.
- ISBN:
- 0743296818
- 9780743296816
- OCLC:
- 124043344
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