Torment and Tequila in Belle Epoque Mexico
160 pages, 6 x 9
1 B&W figure
Hardcover
Release Date:15 Nov 2025
ISBN:9780817322557
Torment and Tequila in Belle Epoque Mexico
Four Short Works of Fiction by José López Portillo y Rojas
University of Alabama Press
Torment and Tequila in Belle Epoque Mexico is the first English-language collection of selected fiction of the major Mexican author and political figure José López Portillo y Rojas (1850–1923). López Portillo y Rojas’s career spanned the late nineteenth century to the tumultuous years of the Mexican Revolution. Included in this collection, the novella Nieves is one of the most frequently cited nineteenth-century Mexican literary works.
José López Portillo y Rojas (1850–1923) was an acclaimed Mexican writer and political figure.
Terry Rugeley is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Epic Mexico: A History from Earliest Times and The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires, among other works.
