The weight of temptation / Ana Maria Shua ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shua, Ana María, 1951-

Contributor:

Labinger, Andrea G.

Series:

Latin American Women Writers

Latin American women writers

Standardized Title:

Peso de la tentación. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Weight loss--Fiction.

Weight loss.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<DIV>Ana María Shua's work <I>Microfictions</I> and her novel <I>Death as a Side Effect</I> are available from the University of Nebraska Press. Andrea G. Labinger is a professor of Spanish emerita from the University of La Verne in Southern California. Her many translations include Shua's <I>Death as a Side Effect</I>, Alicia Steimberg's <I>The Rainforest</I> (Nebraska, 2006), and <I>Call Me Magdalena</I> (Nebraska, 2001).</DIV>

Contents:

Cover ; Title Pgae ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; 1. Weighing In; 2. Fast Day; 3. The Group; 4. Case History I; 5. The Barracks; 6. Case History II; 7. Beat Your Face; 8. Case History III; 9. The Clockwork Orange; 10. Case History IV; 11. The Inferno; 12. The Phone Call; 13. The Campfires; 14. New Friends; 15. His Own Grave; 16. Food Trafficking; 17. Sob Stories; 18. The Farewell Party; 19. The Orgy; 20. Elephant Seals; 21. I Have a Lover; 22. It Had to Be Esteban; 23. The Divine Comedy; 24. Passion; 25. Carola; 26. Under Cover; 27. Betrayal; 28. At the Finish Line; 29. Survival

30. The Unforeseen31. The Crossing; 32. The New Order; 33. Outside

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613863300

9781283550857

1283550857

9780803246171

080324617X

OCLC:

809977180