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Blood of Requited Love Manuel Puig |
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Cruel love and heartbreak remembered. This inventive novel is a series of questions and confessional answers, an internal dialogue between Josemar, a construction worker, and Maria, a privileged young woman. Looking back at the teenage passion they shared from the remove of ten years, they try to reconstruct their story despite the obstacles of time's passage, societal disapproval, and family pressure. Set in a provincial Brazilian town, Blood of Requited Love explores memory and its failings, self-deception and its costs, and the hidden manacles of machismo. Back in print after being unavailable for several years, this novel is a moving work that combines the high drama of pulp fiction with Puig's acclaimed, incisive writing style. "One of Puig's best novels." —American Book Review "Puig is brilliantly inventive." —New York Times "Both a funny writer and a tenderly elegiac one." —Newsweek Best known for his novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, which has been adapted as a movie and a Broadway musical, Manuel Puig (19321990) also wrote Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages and Pubis Angelical (1999), as well as Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Heartbreak Tango, and The Buenos Aires Affair. 208 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 | 1999 |
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$16.95 Paper