Tropical Night Falling
Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslation of: Cae la noche tropical. Two aged Argentine sisters share a life of gossip in tropical Rio.
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Author: Manuel Puig
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslation of: Cae la noche tropical. Two aged Argentine sisters share a life of gossip in tropical Rio.
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 929
ISBN-13: 030748839X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs on New York, religion, and lust—here is “more matter” commissioned by an age that, as the author remarks in his Preface, calls for “real stuff . . . not for the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction.” Still, the novelist’s shaping hand, his gift for telling detail, can be detected in many of these literary considerations. Books by Edith Wharton, Dawn Powell, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov are incisively treated, as are biographies of Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, and Helen Keller. As George Steiner observed, Updike writes with a “solicitous, almost tender intelligence. The critic and the poet in him . . . are at no odds with the novelist; the same sharpness of apprehension bears on the object in each of Updike’s modes.”
Author: Paris Review
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2003-03-18
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0679773495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth book in the Modern Library’s Paris Review Writers at Work series, Latin American Writers at Work is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. These fascinating conversations were compiled from the annals of The Paris Review and include a new, lyrical Introduction by Nobel Prize–winning author Derek Walcott.
Author: Juris Dilevko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-03-17
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1598849093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.
Author: Jaime Manrique
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780299161842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the leading Latino writers working today offers a provocative autobiography interweaving his own story with the lives of three other gay Hispanic authors: Manuel Puig, Reinaldo Arenas, and Federico Garcia Lorca.
Author: Bp. John McKendree Springer
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Suzanne Jill Levine
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2022-08-23
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 0374610770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManuel Puig & The Spider Woman tells the life story of the innovative and flamboyant novelist and playwright himself. Suzanne Jill Levine, his principal English translator, draws upon years of friendship as well as copious research and interviews in her remarkable book, the first biography of the inimitable writer. Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentinian author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and pioneer of high camp, stands alone in the pantheon of contemporary Latin American literature. Strongly influenced by Hollywood films of the thirties and forties, his many-layered novels and plays integrate serious fiction and popular culture, mixing political and sexual themes with B-movie scenarios. When his first two novels were published in the late 1960s, they delighted the public but were dismissed as frivolous by the leftist intellectuals of the Boom; his third novel was banned by the Peronist government for irreverence. His influence was already felt, though-even by writers who had dismissed him-and by the time the film version of Kiss of the Spider Woman became a worldwide hit, he was a renowned literary figure. Puig's way of life was as unconventional as his fiction: he spoke of himself in the female form in Spanish, renamed his friends for his favorite movie stars, referred to his young male devotees as "daughters," and, as a perennial expatriate, lived (often with his mother) everywhere from Rome to Rio de Janeiro.
Author: Jean Rhys
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780393315462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of a woman on the edge caught in the stranglehold between her lover and his wife. When her husband is released from prison, the situation explodes.
Author: Carol Hill
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996-01-26
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780393314076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cult classic from its first appearance, this ambitious novel is a rich and comic blend of physics, feminism, and political farce. Brilliant physicist Amanda Jaworski is in training to be the first person to journey to Mars. With her magic cat, Schrodinger, Amanda soon finds herself doing battle with the greatest seductress of all, the Eleven Million Mile High Dancer, a being from 40 million light years away.
Author: Montserrat Fontes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992-05-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780393308471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo wealthy nine-year-olds living in a Mexican village in 1947 steal the town hooker's life savings and flee to an impoverished section, where they are set upon and abused by the desperate children who live there.