Puig, Manuel (Vol. 5) - Puig, Manuel 1932–
Puig, Manuel 1932–
Puig is an Argentinian novelist. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 45-48.)
["Betrayed By Rita Hayworth"] sounds like a one-joke book. Manuel Puig … describes a provincial growing up in which movies were as vital as bread. As a bedtime story, the young hero, Toto, asks to be told the plot of "Intermezzo," which a fever prevented his attending after he had clipped out all the magazine photos of Ingrid Bergman in anticipation of its arrival. In turn, when he gets a little older, he is able to be a comfort to his mother when childbirth causes her to miss "Hold Back the Dawn" during its brief local run. Toto's mother failed to marry a suitor who became a movie actor ("We never really thought Carlos Palau would make it," one of the family wistfully recalls), but she has the consolation that her irascible husband looks "exactly" like that missed chance. The climax of young Toto's school career is an essay competition on...
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