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Title: Bulletproof Vest
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter
Author: Maria Venegas
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1847083471
EAN: 9781847083470
ISBN: 9781847083470
Publisher: Granta Books
Genre: Biography
Release Date: 04/06/2015
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 226g
Release Year: 2015
Description: Maria Venegas had been estranged from her father for fourteen years when she finally made the journey back from the US to Mexico to visit him in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. As they begin spending summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fence posts, he starts to share 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 and his extradition from the US for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at age twelve. In spare, gripping prose, Venegas traces her own life and her father's through the stories she inherited from him and gradually comes to understand the violent undercurrent that has shaped them both.

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