Buenos Aires Affair Contributor(s): Puig, Manuel (Author), Levine, Suzanne Jill (Translator), Esposito, Scott (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1564785807 ISBN-13: 9781564785800 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2010007636 |
Series: Argentinian Literature |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.4" W x 8.28" (0.69 lbs) 219 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Manuel Puig's masterful and ironic "detective novel" concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens--Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth--all combining to make a powerful portrait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe D'Onofrio, a lonely 35-year-old sculptor, tormented by her fantasies and perpetually in search of the ideal lover; and Leo Druscovich, an outwardly confident and successful art critic, deeply troubled by a terrible guilt that surfaces in his repeated sexual failures. Taking on, exchanging, and growing into the roles of victim and criminal, their lives presented through a variety of different kinds of "evidence"--lists, scribbled notes, transcripts, one-sided interrogations--these two lost souls gradually find themselves entirely dependent on one another... and heading towards precisely the sort of violent ending a detective novel demands. |