{"product_id":"underground-river-and-other-stories-ines-arredondo-9780803259270","title":"Underground River and Other Stories","description":"In駸 Arredondo (1928-1989) published just three slim volumes of stories over twenty-three years, yet her reputation as a great writer, \"a necessary writer,\" is firmly established in Mexico. Her works dwell on obsessions: erotic love, evil, purity, perversion, prostitution, tragic separation, and death. Most of her characters are involved in ill-fated searches for the Absolute through both excessively passionate and sadomasochistic relationships. Inevitably, the perfect, pure dyad of two youthful lovers is interrupted or corrupted through the interference of a third party (a rival lover or a child), aging, death, or public morality. \u003cp\u003eSet at the beginning of the twentieth century in the tropical northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, the stories collected in Underground River and Other Stories focus on female subjectivity. Arredondo's adult male characters are often predators, depraved collectors of adolescent virgins, like the plantation owners in \"The Nocturnal Butterflies\" and \"Shadows in the Shadows\" and the dying uncle in \"The Shunammite,\" who is kept alive by incestuous lust. Since the young female protagonists rarely have fathers to protect them, the only thing standing between them and these lechers are older women. Perversely, these older women act as accomplices-along with the extended family and the Roman Catholic Church-in the sordid age-old traffic in women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderground River and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is the first appearance of Arredondo's stories in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elena Poniatowska, Ines Arredondo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803259271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803259270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.45h x 5.49w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1996 pg. 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/27\/1996 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/1996 pg. 1672\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/23\/1997 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/1996 pg. 95","brand":"Elena Poniatowska","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992446107903,"sku":"9780803259270","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63e6eb40-2aea-4306-9aa9-9d010bb40404.jpg?v=1683318996","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/underground-river-and-other-stories-ines-arredondo-9780803259270","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}