{"product_id":"solitaire-of-love-cristina-peri-rossi-9780822325406","title":"Solitaire of Love","description":"\u003ci\u003eSolitaire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, an achingly lyrical novel by internationally acclaimed Latin American writer Cristina Peri Rossi, explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Only the fourth book of Peri Rossi's to be translated into English-the others are \u003ci\u003eThe Ship of Fools, A Forbidden Passion, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDostoevsky's Last Night\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eSolitaire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the mesmerizingly rhythmic language that has become the trademark of this award-winning and prolific author of novels, essay collections, poetry, and short stories.\u003cbr\u003eTracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eSolitaire of Love\u003c\/i\u003e becomes addicted to his own passion and to the body of his beloved. Erotic, romantic love becomes bewitchment, producing a heightened state where time is measured in the rhythms of a chosen body and pride becomes subservient to obsession. The specifics of this other body trump any claim to ordinary existence for the narrator, as sex becomes a kind of idolatrous slavery and love becomes a mechanism for self-immolation. As in Peri Rossi's other works, an ambiguous sense of gender and sexuality arise from her uniquely experimental prose and mystically erotic logic. Language is subsumed into this process as a way to bear witness, to transfix and capture the love object. The limbo of obsession, as described by Peri Rossi, creates an infantilizing brand of loneliness, broken by flashes of joy, insight, fury, and fear.\u003cbr\u003eThis novel was originally published in Spanish in 1988.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristina Peri Rossi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822325403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822325406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 5.39w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/07\/2000 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2000 pg. 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/04\/2000","brand":"Cristina Peri Rossi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990404694271,"sku":"9780822325406","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f8e9cce-ffb7-407e-9733-fa1df3426c5e.jpg?v=1683304482","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/solitaire-of-love-cristina-peri-rossi-9780822325406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}