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Originally published 1970 as La traicion de Rita Hayworth by Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires.Manuel Puig's "dazzling & wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, & gossip—but most of all, to the movies.When it appeared in 1968, Manuel Puig's debut—a portrait of the artist as a child in small-town Argentina—was hailed as revolutionary. Borrowing from the language of "true romance" & movie magazines, the techniques of American modernism, & Hollywood montage, Puig created an exuberant queer aesthetic while also celebrating the secret lives of women.Hanging on the conversations of his mother, friends, & neighbors, Puig's stand-in Toto pieces together stories as full of passion, desire, & revenge as anything dreamed up for the silver screen. "A screamingly funny book, with scenes of such utter bathos that only a student of final reels such as Puig could possibly have verbally recreated for us" — Alexander ColemanABOUT THE AUTHORSBorn in a small town in the Argentine pampas, MANUEL PUIG (1932–1990) read philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires before winning a scholarsh

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Author

Manuel Puig, Suzanne Jill Levine (translation)

Publisher

McNally Editions

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781946022431

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14