{"product_id":"bring-me-the-head-of-quentin-tarantino-stories","title":"Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino: Stories by Julián Herbert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirtuosic stories by one of “the more interesting and ambitious prose stylists of our time” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe antic and often dire stories in \u003ci\u003eBring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino \u003c\/i\u003edepict 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50282772332859,"sku":"1644451360","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/13417993482773.jpg?v=1746898000","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/bring-me-the-head-of-quentin-tarantino-stories","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}