Author: Manuel Puig Year: 1968 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Culture: Latin-American
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ISBNs: 9780393313840 9781564785305 0393313840 1564785300 |
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Finally back in print, Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip -- but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to the town's secrets and always eager to fill in the ugly or upsetting moments of his childhood with Hollywood-inspired fantasy, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth is a symphony of disappointed, comic, bitter, and bawdy voices, all hemmed in by life's refusal to behave like the silver screen, and is perhaps the funniest and most honest coming-of-age story of its time. çºè¡ï¼ã¤ã³ãã¬ã¹
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