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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781604862058
- Book Title
- Calling All Heroes : a Manual for Taking Power
- Book Series
- Found in Translation Ser.
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Historical
- Item Weight
- 0.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
PM Press
ISBN-10
160486205X
ISBN-13
9781604862058
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038434133
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Calling All Heroes : a Manual for Taking Power
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Found in Translation Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-912421
Reviews
"Taibo uses humour and an unrivalled inventiveness to shine a light onto the darkness, and the result is intoxicating, and subversive, enchantment." -- The Latin American Review of Books, "The real enchantment of Mr. Taibo's storytelling lies in the wild and melancholy tangle of life he sees everywhere." -New York Times Book Review, "Taibo uses humour and an unrivalled inventiveness to shine a light onto the darkness, and the result is intoxicating, and subversive, enchantment." -- The Latin American Review of Books, "Taibo uses humour and an unrivalled inventiveness to shine a light onto the darkness, and the result is intoxicating, and subversive, enchantment." — The Latin American Review of Books, "The real enchantment of Mr. Taibo's storytelling lies in the wild and melancholy tangle of life he sees everywhere." -- New York Times Book Review, "I am [Taibo's] number one fan . . . I can always lose myself in one of his novels because of their intelligence and humor." -Laura Esquivel, author,Like Water for Chocolate, "Taibo's writing is witty, provocative, finely nuanced, and well worth the challenge." -- Publishers Weekly, "Taibo's writing is witty, provocative, finely nuanced, and well worth the challenge." -- Publishers Weekly, "I am [Taibo's] number one fan . . . I can always lose myself in one of his novels because of their intelligence and humor." —Laura Esquivel, author, Like Water for Chocolate, "The real enchantment of Mr. Taibo's storytelling lies in the wild and melancholy tangle of life he sees everywhere." -- New York Times Book Review, "The real enchantment of Mr. Taibo's storytelling lies in the wild and melancholy tangle of life he sees everywhere." — New York Times Book Review, "Taibo uses humour and an unrivalled inventiveness to shine a light onto the darkness, and the result is intoxicating, and subversive, enchantment." --The Latin American Review of Books, "Taibo's writing is witty, provocative, finely nuanced, and well worth the challenge." -Publishers Weekly, "I am [Taibo's] number one fan . . . I can always lose myself in one of his novels because of their intelligence and humor." --Laura Esquivel, author, Like Water for Chocolate, "Taibo's writing is witty, provocative, finely nuanced, and well worth the challenge." — Publishers Weekly, "I am [Taibo's] number one fan . . . I can always lose myself in one of his novels because of their intelligence and humor." --Laura Esquivel, author, Like Water for Chocolate, "Taibo's writing is witty, provocative, finely nuanced and well worth the challenge." -Publishers Weekly "I am his number one fan…I can always lose myself in one of his novels because of their intelligence and humor. My secret wish is to become one of the characters in his fiction, all of them drawn from the wit and wisdom of popular imagination. Yet make no mistake, Paco Taibo-sociologist and historian-is recovering the political history of Mexico to offer a vital, compelling vision of our reality." -Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate "The real enchantment of Mr. Taibo's storytelling lies in the wild and melancholy tangle of life he sees everywhere." -New York Times Book Review "Wild and imaginative rambling it may seem, but Paco Ignacio Taibo's work always conceals absurdly hidden truths, and in this case the absurdly hidden truth concerned the universally condemned massacre of students in Tlatelolco, Mexico, in 1968. The author weaves a highly inventive tale populated by comic book and literary heroes who help the convalescing journalist N�stor recall the moment and recreate the tragic events that the Mexican government crudely, yet effectively, sought to erase from the country's official history. Taibo uses humour and an unrivalled inventiveness to shine a light onto the darkness, and the result is intoxicating, and subversive, enchantment." -Latin American Review of Books "It doesn't matter what happens. Taibo's novels constitute an absurdist manifesto. No matter how oppressive a government, no matter how strict the limitations of life, we all have our imaginations, our inventiveness, our ability to liven up lonely apartments with a couple of quacking ducks. If you don't have anything left, oppressors can't take anything away." -Washington Post Book World
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
863.64
Synopsis
This speculative novel has the euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure at its centre., The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer Olympics in Mexico, the Mexican government responds to a student demonstration in Tlatelolcothe by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding hundreds more. The massacre does not receive much international attention and though many students are detained, no officials are held accountable. The story then skips ahead two years to a hospital in Mexico City and introduces Nestor, a fictional journalist who witnessed the shootings at Tlatelolcothe. He has been admitted to the hospital for a knife wound, and as he lies in bed, his fevered imagination goes back to the day of the riot. In his delirious state, he becomes so desperate he calls on the heroes of his youth--Sherlock Holmes, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and D'Artagnan among them--to join him in launching a new movement of reform., The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer Olympics in Mexico, the Mexican government responds to a student demonstration in Tlatelolco by firing into the crowd, killing more than 200 students and civilians and wounding hundreds more. The Tlatelolco massacre was erased from the official record as easily as authorities washing the blood from the streets, and no one was ever held accountable. It is two years later and Nestor, a journalist and participant in the fateful events, lies recovering in the hospital from a knife wound. His fevered imagination leads him in the collection of facts and memories of the movement and its assassination in the company of figures from his childhood. Nestor calls on the heroes of his youth--Sherlock Holmes, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and D'Artagnan among them--to join him in launching a new reform movement conceived by his intensely active imagination.
LC Classification Number
PQ7298.3.A58
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