The Lonely Hearts Club (Masks S.)

The Lonely Hearts Club (Masks S.)

by RaulNunez (Author), E.Emery (Translator)

Synopsis

A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the forty-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his life come a Perez Galdos widow, a dwarf poet, a gay barman. The Lonely Hearts Club is a novel of Barcelona. Its people and its places, the Ramblas, the Plaza Real, the Barrio Chino, are brought to life in a book that is outrageously funny but never loses sympathy with its characters.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: Main
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 15 Feb 1989

ISBN 10: 1852421371
ISBN 13: 9781852421373

Media Reviews
The street, low life, faith, blood; it
s all there in this magnificent book * Luna de Madrid *
A stark description of the harshness of cities and the ensuing loneliness, written with ironic warmth * Quinzaine Litt?raire *
In the writing of this Barcelona writer, there is a vivacious intelligence which is rendered in a direct and popular language * Le Monde *
Author Bio
Raul Nunez was born in Buenos Aires and lived in Barcelona from 1975 until his death in 1988.