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The tower of glass / Ivan Angelo ; translation by Ellen Watson.
Van Pelt Library PQ9698.1.N474 C3713 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angelo, Ivan, 1936-
- Series:
- Latin American literature series (Dalkey Archive Press)
- Latin American literature series
- Standardized Title:
- Casa de vidro. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First Dalkey archive edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Normal, Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- The five interlocking stories in The Tower of Glass create a singular, powerful account of a nation in turmoil -- and a prophetic warning about an oppressive government's need to control not just the society but the mind. Through symbolism, wry humor, and outrageous sexual frankness, Ivan Angelo tells of businessmen and whores, poor working people and Death Squads, truth and illusion, and methods of political manipulation and terror. From the gritty, bawdy story of Bete the streetwalker to the Kafkaesque portrait of a prison made of glass, these fictional pieces demonstrate Angelo's masterful wordplay and his ability to take formal and structural risks without a false step.
- Contents:
- Conquest 1
- Friday Night/Saturday Morning 33
- The Real True Son of the Bitch 67
- The Tower of Glass 115
- Lost & Found 153.
- ISBN:
- 1564783464
- OCLC:
- 53975539
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