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Last Date In El Zapotal
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Description: A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts . This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die to rent a room in this crumbling backwater melt into one last fix and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive though he can t stop clinging to the past. His old dog Kid who he abandoned. His love Valerie who he introduced to drugs. There's no such thing as a good memory. El Zapotal doesn t want him either. The people aren t welcoming the streets are empty except for strays and he's having trouble pacing his supply. As the drugs run out the line between what's real and what's not blurs to the point of illegibility and we re left wandering a tenderly described hinterland of despair hunger and regret. Garc a Elizondo has given us an homage to Pedro P ramo a descent for the ages a long goodbye with no clear line between the living and dead.
Title: Last Date In El Zapotal
Author(s): Garcia Elizondo Mateo
Publisher: Charco Press
Barcode: 9781913867843
Pages: 163 Pages, No
Publication Date: 6/25/2024
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts . This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die to rent a room in this crumbling backwater melt into one last fix and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive though he can t stop clinging to the past. His old dog Kid who he abandoned. His love Valerie who he introduced to drugs. There's no such thing as a good memory. El Zapotal doesn t want him either. The people aren t welcoming the streets are empty except for strays and he's having trouble pacing his supply. As the drugs run out the line between what's real and what's not blurs to the point of illegibility and we re left wandering a tenderly described hinterland of despair hunger and regret. Garc a Elizondo has given us an homage to Pedro P ramo a descent for the ages a long goodbye with no clear line between the living and dead.
Title: Last Date In El Zapotal
Author(s): Garcia Elizondo Mateo
Publisher: Charco Press
Barcode: 9781913867843
Pages: 163 Pages, No
Publication Date: 6/25/2024
Category: Fiction In Translation