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Bulletproof vest : the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter / Maria Venegas.
Van Pelt Library HV6248.V455 A3 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venegas, Maria, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Venegas, Maria, 1973-.
- Venegas, Maria.
- Venegas, José Manuel.
- Children of criminals--Family relationships--Mexico.
- Children of criminals.
- Criminals--Family relationships--Mexico.
- Criminals.
- Fathers and daughters--Mexico.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Criminals--Family relationships.
- Families.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 305 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Bullet-proof vest : the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Summary:
- "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"--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Book 1
- 1 Bulletproof Vest 9
- 2 Handicapped Bastard 19
- 3 Witness Protection PROGRAM 24
- 4 The Hallelujahs 45
- 5 The Grapes Of Wrath 55
- 6 Runaway Train 67
- 7 Love, Sweet Love 75
- 8 Wu Call Police 81
- 9 The Fugitive 92
- 10 A Fine Young Bull 101
- 11 You Say Jerusalem, I Say Paris 113
- 12 The Wall 119
- 13 Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds 123
- 14 House Of Scorpions 131
- 15 Cowboy Mouth 137
- Book 2
- 16 Family Portrait 153
- 17 The Museum 181
- 18 Dust Devils 188
- 19 Blite Dress 202
- 20 Shooting Guns Like Shooting Stars 213
- 21 Qtielites 224
- 22 El Glen Vacas 231
- 23 Hnilstorm 241
- Book Three
- 24 The Kidnapping 253
- 25 Starfish 268
- 26 Blue Moon 284.
- ISBN:
- 9780374117313
- 0374117314
- OCLC:
- 865179803
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