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Down and Delirious in Mexico City by Daniel Hernandez

 

Hernandez travels to Mexico City searching for his cultural roots. Encountering a chaotic intoxicating underdeveloped and hypermodern city, Hernandez lovingly chronicles this city of manifestations of danger desire humor and beauty.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City by Daniel Hernandez

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  • 2nd trade paperback printing

     

    Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.

     

    Publishing Info: Scribner, New York

    ISBN: 9781416577034

     

    Mexico City, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world.

     

    In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of lifeā€”and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets.

     

    Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of "cosmic violence."

     

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