Bedside Manners - Softcover

Valenzuela, Luisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852423137 ISBN 13: 9781852423131

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1995

Synopsis

A woman returns to her homeland, a Latin American country that has just returned to democratic rule. A friend suggests she recuperate from her journey at a local country club. Soon after arriving, she realizes the club overlooks the training grounds of soldiers plotting to bring back military rule. A comedy of manners in which the military jump in and out of the kingsize bed faster than you can say coup. This is Luisa Valenzuela at her best ? ironic, political commentary laced with sex and humour.

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Review:

Luisa Valenzuela explores the terrain where love and violence, erotic pleasure and death, exist perilously close to each other... Valenzuela plays with words, turns them inside out, weaves them into sensuous webs (Village Voice)

Luisa Valenzuela's books reflect our present, but they also contain much of our future: there is true light, true love, true freedom in every one of her pages (Julio Cort?zar)

Luisa Valenzuela is the heiress of Latin American fiction. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her feet are naked (Carlos Fuentes)

About the Author:

Luisa Valenzuela was born in Argentina and now lives in Buenos Aires. She is described by Carlos Fuentes as 'the heiress of Latin American fiction'. Translations of her work published by Serpent's Tail include The Lizard's Tail, Bedside Manners and Open Door.

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1852423137
• ISBN 13: 9781852423131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128