Blood of Requited Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816635351)

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. See in a provincial Brazilian town, Blood of Requited Love explores memory and its failing, 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.

Author: Manuel Puig
ISBN-10: 0816635358
ISBN-13: 9780816635351
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/1999
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.48h x 8.48w x 0.68d