Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages

Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages

by Manuel Puig (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 20 May 1993

ISBN 10: 0099329514
ISBN 13: 9780099329510

Author Bio
Mauel Puig was born in 1932 in a small town in the Argentinian pampas. He studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, and in 1956 won a scholarship from the Italian Institute in Buenos Aires and chose to pursue studies in film direction at the Cinecitta in Rome. There he worked in films until 1962, where he began to write his first novel. Exiled from Argentina, he settled in New York City in 1963. Puig's novels - Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Heartbreak Tango, The Buenos Aires Affair, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages- have been translated into fourteen languages and secured his international reputation. He died in July 1990.