Bulletproof vest : the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter
Venegas, Maria, 1973-2014
Book
Maria Venegas has 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.
Main title:
Bulletproof vest : the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter / Maria Venegas.
Author:
Venegas, Maria, 1973-, author
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2014.London : Granta, 2014.
Collation:
320 pages
ISBN:
9781847083463 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6972.083 VEN972.083A972.083
Language:
English
BRN:
1572471