Arena Books
3 total works
Manuel Puig's debut novel disects the quiet despair of small-town life where nothing ever happens, the future is often the same as the present, the past all but forgotten. The women talk about the movies they've seen, they actresses they'd like to be, the actors they'd like to love...and one young man plans how he'd handle Rita Hayworth, so she'd never betray him the way she's betrayed everyone else!
Finally available again after many years, one of the most compelling novels from Argentina's great novelists.
Rescued from imprisonment which cost him both his memory and his dreams, Mr Ramirez now lives in a home for the old. Larry, a drop-out from the middle-class academic world he once inhabited lives in his own exile. As Larry pushes Mr Ramirez in is wheelchair through the streets of Greenwich Village they talk, wonderig if they can avoid each other's lies.