Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig [U.K. TRADE PAPERBACK]

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Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig

UK TRADE PAPERBACK [1984] ARENA BOOKS

Rare 1987 UK trade paperback import w/ rare cover.

Book is in excellent condition. Light wear and mid tanning. Reads like new.

Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip—but most of all, to the movies.

Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to the town's secrets and always eager to fill in the ugly or upsetting moments of his childhood with Hollywood—inspired fantasy, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth is a symphony of disappointed, comic, bitter, and bawdy voices, all hemmed in by life's refusal to behave like the silver screen, and is perhaps the funniest and most honest coming-of-age story of its time.