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Blood of requited love / Manuel Puig ; translated by Jan L. Grayson.
LIBRA - Special PQ7798.26.U4 S213 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Puig, Manuel.
- Standardized Title:
- Sangre de amor correspondido. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Machismo.
- Brazil--Fiction.
- Brazil.
- Machismo--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Confession stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 202 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First University of Minnesota Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This inventive novel is a series of questions and confessional answers, an internal dialogue between Josemar, a construction worker, and Maria, a privileged young woman. Looking back at the teenage passion they shared from the remove of ten years, they try to reconstruct their story despite the obstacles of time's passage, societal disapproval, and family pressure. See in a provincial Brazilian town, Blood of Requited Love explores memory and its failing, self-deception and its costs, and the hidden manacles of machismo. Back in print after being unavailable for several years, this novel is a moving work that combines the high drama of pulp fiction with Puig's acclaimed, incisive writing style.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Vintage Books, 1984.
- ISBN:
- 0816635358
- 9780816635351
- OCLC:
- 41320161
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