by Manuel Puig · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099341901
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«Betrayed by Rita Hayworth» is the novel by Manuel Puig, published by Vintage in paperback (222 pages, in English).
The story revolves around Toto, a boy growing up in the Argentine pampas in the 1930s and 1940s, fascinated by Hollywood movies and by Rita Hayworth. Through monologues, letters, dialogues and film scripts, it portrays the dreams, alienation and frustrations of a world marked by American popular culture.
This edition corresponds to the English translation by Suzanne Jill Levine of «La traición de Rita Hayworth», originally published in Spanish in 1968.
For readers interested in Latin American fiction and in how Hollywood cinema permeates memory and everyday life.
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
