I'll Sell You a Dog

Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home, where fending off boredom is far more grueling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building's lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist, Villalobos's old man can't help but misbehave: he antagonises his neighbors, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno, and flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer. A delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity, I'll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 08/09/2016
ISBN: 9781908276742
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/06/2016
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2016 pg. 27
Booklist 08/01/2016 pg. 26