Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393315752)

The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Peron being hidden away by nervous politicians for fear that if the working people of Argentina knew where it was buried, it would inspire them to revolution.In between Eva Peron became first the actress Eva Duarte, then the mistress of Colonel Per, then, in October 1945 after the "shirtless ones" had swept Peron into office, the president's wife. In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, she wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. She was literally idolized by millions but was hated and feared by many as well. She became Evita, the legend.

Author: Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro
ISBN-10: 0393315754
ISBN-13: 9780393315752
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1996
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.53w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/03/1996