Kiss of the Spider Woman

Name: Kiss of the Spider Woman
Author: Manuel Puig
ISBN: 9780679724490

by Manuel Puig

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Kiss of the Spider Woman

by Manuel Puig

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Kiss of the Spider Woman is a graceful, intensely compelling novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell: Molina, a gay window dresser who is self-centered, self-denigrating, yet charming as well; and Valentin, an articulate, fiercely dogmatic revolutionary haunted by memories of a woman he left for the cause. Both are gradually transformed by their guarded but growing friendship and by Molina's obsession with the fantasy and romance of the movies.

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LanguageEnglish

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication DateApr. 3rd, 1991

Pages288

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ISBN-139780679724490

Dimensions5.18 x 7.98 x 0.64 inches

ISBN-100679724494

Shipping Weight0.53 lbs

Manuel Puig

Author Manuel Puig was born in General Villegas, Argentina on December 28, 1932. Betrayed by Rita Hayworth (1968) is an innovative novel narrating through a variety of techniques the story of a young Argentine boy who lives vicariously through the movies. Puig uses the phenomenon of compulsive movie-going as a symbol for alienation and escape from reality. Heartbreak Tango (1969) evokes the spiritual emptiness of the Argentine provincial life in the 1930s and the vulgarity of popular music and the soap opera. His best known work, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1979), was adapted as a film in 1985 and as a Broadway musical in 1993. He died of a heart attack on July 22, 1990.

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"A visionary work that breathed life into certain dimensions of human possibility long before society at large was prepared to imagine them." Carolina de Robertis, Los Angeles Review of Books

"Richly ambivalent and mysterious." The Washington Post

"In exceptional form, Puig weaves his own shimmering web around a classic theme." Newsweek

"Puig dazzles one with sheer technical ability." Newsday

"Dazzling... a triumph." The Observer (UK)

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FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication DateApr. 3rd, 1991

Pages288

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ISBN-139780679724490

Dimensions5.18 x 7.98 x 0.64 inches

ISBN-100679724494

Shipping Weight0.53 lbs

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