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Author | Camilo José Cela |
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Original title | Cristo versus Arizona |
Translator | Martin Sokolinsky |
Language | Spanish |
Publisher | Seix Barral |
Publication date | 1988 |
Publication place | Spain |
Published in English | 2007 |
Pages | 238 |
ISBN | 9788432205828 |
Christ Versus Arizona ( Spanish: Cristo versus Arizona) is a 1988 Western novel by the Spanish writer Camilo José Cela. [1]
The book is set in the American Old West during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881. It consists of a monologue in one long sentence, inside the head of Wendell Liverpool Espana, who is the son of a prostitute and observes the gunfight. [2]
Publishers Weekly wrote that the book creates "a vivid and frequently grotesque picture of the American Southwest", full of "graphic depictions of racism, murder and death". The critic called it a significant addition to Cela's work that is "not for the faint of heart". [2]
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Author | Camilo José Cela |
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Original title | Cristo versus Arizona |
Translator | Martin Sokolinsky |
Language | Spanish |
Publisher | Seix Barral |
Publication date | 1988 |
Publication place | Spain |
Published in English | 2007 |
Pages | 238 |
ISBN | 9788432205828 |
Christ Versus Arizona ( Spanish: Cristo versus Arizona) is a 1988 Western novel by the Spanish writer Camilo José Cela. [1]
The book is set in the American Old West during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1881. It consists of a monologue in one long sentence, inside the head of Wendell Liverpool Espana, who is the son of a prostitute and observes the gunfight. [2]
Publishers Weekly wrote that the book creates "a vivid and frequently grotesque picture of the American Southwest", full of "graphic depictions of racism, murder and death". The critic called it a significant addition to Cela's work that is "not for the faint of heart". [2]