In Praise of the Stepmother - Hardcover

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 057114134X ISBN 13: 9780571141340

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1991

Synopsis

In Praise of the Stepmother [First Printing]

About this title

Review:

" Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller." -- "The Washington Post Book World"
" Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." -- "Newsday"
" Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn' t have given it a grant." -- "The New Yorker"
" The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one." -- "Los Angeles Times"
" An elaborate and lushly written novel." -- "USA Today"
" Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic fancy, from the classical to the abstract, the ancient to the postmodern, the sacred to the profane." -- "San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner "
“Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller.” —"The Washington Post Book World"
“Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent.” —"Newsday"
“Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn’t have given it a grant.” —"The New Yorker"
“The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one.” —"Los Angeles Times"
“An elaborate and lushly written novel.” —"USA Today"
“Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic

"Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller." --"The Washington Post Book World"
"Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." --"Newsday"
"Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant." --"The New Yorker"
"The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one." --"Los Angeles Times"
"An elaborate and lushly written novel." --"USA Today"
"Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic fancy, from the classical to the abstract, the ancient to the postmodern, the sacred to the profane." --"San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner "

Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller. "The Washington Post Book World"

Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent. "Newsday"

Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant. "The New Yorker"

The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one. "Los Angeles Times"

An elaborate and lushly written novel. "USA Today"

Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic fancy, from the classical to the abstract, the ancient to the postmodern, the sacred to the profane. "San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner""

"Powerful, incendiary...Vargas Llosa is a master storyteller." --The Washington Post Book World

"Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns.... Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." --Newsday

"Startling...Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant." --The New Yorker

"The author is silky....Vargas Llosa has written a genuinely erotic story and a wicked parody of one." --Los Angeles Times

"An elaborate and lushly written novel." --USA Today

"Vargas Llosa has tickled all our notions of love and lust, felicity and perversity, teased all our ideas of innocence and self-consciousness, and nibbled playful and ambiguous at every romantic fancy, from the classical to the abstract, the ancient to the postmodern, the sacred to the profane." --San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner

Book Description:

In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa meets perfectly the demands of the erotic novel, without for an instant dimming the fine poetic polish of the prose of this Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 057114134X
• ISBN 13: 9780571141340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176