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ISBN-10: 0810119544
ISBN-13: 9780810119543
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: 12/18/2002
Dimensions: 8.68" L, 6.56" W, 0.64" H

All Night Movie

Translator: Cola Franzen
Foreword by: Luisa Valenzuela

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Price: $17.95

Overview

An irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world. A rogues’ gallery of labor union leaders, cultists, lesbians, murderers, ne’er-do-wells, prostitutes, and visitors to a disconcertingly erotic telephone booth accompany the picara as she pushes the limits established in patriarchal postdictatorship Argentina. With lyric prose, Alicia Borinsky creates a hypnotic kaleidoscope of voices–a tantalizing and illuminating mix of the pop culture, politics, sexuality, tango, and cinema of an enigmatic society that celebrates its own demise.

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No one else writing today can quite emulate her cartoon prose, a shot-gun marriage of comic and camp, the Borgesian and the Barthesian. Her eponymous heroine moves picaresquely from Momma & Poppa family to a telephone booth of a hock -shop, the epitome of 'down-town glitter' from London to New York offering every kind of fix, including here black tulips sprouting not surely in homage to A. Dumas.
–Peter Bush, Director, British Center for Literary Translation
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Details

ISBN-10: 0810119544
ISBN-13: 9780810119543
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publish Date: 12/18/2002
Dimensions: 8.68" L, 6.56" W, 0.64" H
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