Manuel Puig, Author Vintage Books USA $6.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-394-74664-7
Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman, has produced a novel of feminine reverie and feminist polemic. At its center is a dialogue between two womenone possibly dying, the other attending herthat is grounded in the musings of women in love,...
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Manuel Puig, Author, Suzanne Jill Levine, Translator Simon & Schuster $18.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67996-5
The last novel by the late author of Kiss of the Spider Woman , this book uses dialogue, letters and police transcripts to tell the story of two elderly sisters from Buenos Aires, now living in Brazil. Luci, the younger of the two, has befriended a...
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Manuel Puig, Author, Suzanne Jill Levine, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $8.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-393-30908-9
This last novel from the late Puig ( Kiss of the Spider Woman ) uses dialogue, letters and police transcripts to tell the poignant story of two elderly sisters living in Brazil. (Jan.)
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Manuel Puig, trans. from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. McNally Editions, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-946022-42-4
The late Argentine writer Puig (Kiss of the Spider Woman) offers an intimate look at the maids, stifled housewives, and would-be gangsters living on the outskirts of Buenos Aires during the country’s period of political transformation from 1933 to...
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