Author | : Manuel Puig |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Release Date | : 01 September 2010 |
ISBN 10 | : 030776396X |
Pages | : 288 pages |
Rating | : 4/5 (6 users) |
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a graceful, intensely compelling novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell: Molina, a gay window dresser who is self-centered, self-denigrating, yet charming as well; and Valentin, an articulate, fiercely dogmatic revolutionary haunted by memories of a woman he left for the cause. Both are gradually transformed by their guarded but growing friendship and by Molina’s obsession with the fantasy and romance of the movies.