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El último en morir / Xavier Velasco.
Van Pelt - Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections PQ7298.32.E38 U48 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Velasco, Xavier, author.
- Series:
- Narrativa hispánica (Alfaguara (Firm))
- Narrativa hispánica
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Authors--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
- Authors.
- Drug addiction--Mexico--Fiction.
- Drug addiction.
- Drug addicts--Mexico--Fiction.
- Drug addicts.
- Man-woman relationships--Mexico--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Ex-convicts--Mexico--Fiction.
- Ex-convicts.
- Psychological aspects.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 436 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ciudad de México [Mexico City, Mexico] : Alfaguara, octubre 2020.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- Summary:
- "He aquí una retorcida historia de amor. Nuestro prospecto de héroe ha de ganarse su papel en ella con las reglas que impuso desde niño. No hay para él asunto más serio que este juego, cuya materia prima son las cicatrices. Necesita vivir la vida al límite, hacer de cada día una película y saltar al vacío sin la ayuda de un doble. Los novelistas, piensa, son siempre lo que cuentan. Esta novela tiene que ver con el romance, la cárcel, las drogas, la alta velocidad y el trabajo de tiempo completo de ser escritor y no morir en el intento: "Somos aventureros y nos toca morder toneladas de polvo". Porque si la aventura secreta del narrador termina cuando escapa de la escena, esta vez contará la historia de la historia. Toneladas de polvo antes de aterrizar en la última línea." -- Back cover.
- "Here's a twisted love story. Our prospective of hero has to earn his role in it with the rules that he imposed as a child. There is no more serious matter for him than this game, whose raw material is scars. You need to live life on the edge, make a movie out of each day, and jump into the void without the help of a stuntman. Novelists, he thinks, are always what counts. This novel is about romance, jail, drugs, high speed and the full-time job of being a writer and not dying trying: "We are adventurers and we have to bite tons of dust." Because if the narrator's secret adventure ends when he escapes the scene, this time he will tell the story of the story. Tons of dust before landing on the last line." -- Cataloger's translation of the synopsis on the cover
- ISBN:
- 9786073196352
- 6073196350
- OCLC:
- 1192489570
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