Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the films he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which mak[...]
Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manual Puig: the well-known Kiss of the Spider Woman, a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned to[...]
(Vocal Selections). 11 compositions from this musical drama of transformation in a Latin American prison. Includes: Anything for Him * The Day After That * Dear One * Dressing Them Up * I Do Miracles * Kiss of the Spider Woman * The Morphine Tango 1 * Only in the Movies * Over the Wall 2 * She's a W[...]
In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women - an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s, convalescing in a hospital; and a futuristic cyborg sex slave, occupying[...]
Finally available again after many years, one of the most compelling novels from Argentina's great novelists.[...]
Manuel Puig s masterful and ironic detective novel concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth all combining to make a powerful portrait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe D O[...]
In an Argentine prison, the growing friendship between a thirty-seven-year-old homosexual, Molina, and a young Marxist, Valentin, is threatened when police officials start pressuring Molina to spy against Valentin.[...]