Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino
Stories
by Julián Herbert
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Pub Date Nov 03 2020 | Archive Date Dec 03 2020
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Description
Virtuosic stories by one of “the more interesting and ambitious prose stylists of our time” (Los Angeles Times)
In this madcap, insatiably inventive, bravura story collection, Julián Herbert brings to vivid life people who struggle to retain a measure of sanity in an insane world. Here we become acquainted with a vengeful “personal memories coach” who tries to get even with his delinquent clients; a former journalist with a cocaine habit who travels through northern Mexico impersonating a famous author of Westerns; the ghost of Juan Rulfo; a man who discovers music in his teeth; and, in the deliriously pulpy title story, a drug lord who looks just like Quentin Tarantino, who kidnaps a mopey film critic to discuss Tarantino’s films while he sends his goons to find and kill the doppelgänger that has colonized his consciousness. Herbert’s astute observations about human nature in extremis feel like the reader’s own revelations.
The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the ethics of art making. Herbert asks: Where are the lines between fiction, memory, and reality? What is the relationship between power, corruption, and survival? How much violence can a person (and a country) take? The stories in this explosive collection showcase the fevered imagination of a significant contemporary writer.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
Praise for Tomb Song: A Novel
“At once a thrilling document of lives spent along the margins, and a bright burst of formal reinvention, Tomb Song remains elegiac and life-affirming.”—BOMB
“[Tomb Song] is one of the most important, exciting, and original works of literature to come out of Latin America in the past decade.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
Praise for The House of the Pain of Others
“The great strength of Herbert’s book, written with such shame and fury, is that it is not framed as epitaph but as dispatch from a live crime scene, attentive to the silences, the still seething resentments, relinquishing nothing to history.”—Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
“[The House of the Pain of Others] is both vivid and enthusiastically researched, examining each piece of available evidence to establish what must have happened at every stage and how it was obscured, then and later.” —Harper’s
“While [The House of the Pain of Others] is very much about a specific series of events, Herbert never loses sight of the larger implications of this behavior, or the way in which it echoes across nations and cultures. . . . The House of the Pain of Others stands as memorial and warning, and its reach crosses borders and oceans.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781644450413 |
PRICE | CA$22.00 (CAD) |
PAGES | 192 |
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