Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter

Vargas Llosa, Mario

ISBN 10: 0330282344 / ISBN 13: 9780330282345

Published by Picador, London, 1984

About this Item

Some reading and cover creasing, some shelf and edge wear, some cover grime, paper lightly edge toned with some foxing. ; Fourth printing of Picador paperback edition, 1984. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Sue Hillwood-Harris. ; 384 pages; Comic autobiographical novel set in Peru during the 1950s. Mario, an aspiring eighteen-year-old writer who works at a local radio station, falls in love with Julia, the thirty-two-year-old newly divorced sister of his uncle's wife. Their romance is told in parallel with that of the exploits of an eccentric Bolivian scriptwriter who comes to work at a sister station of that of Mario's that transmits radio plays. Translated from the original Spanish by Helen R. Lane.

Seller Inventory # 34610

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter
• Publisher: Picador, London
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330282344
• ISBN 13: 9780330282345
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint; Fourth Printing.
• Condition: Good+

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Synopsis

RO60124921. AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER. 1984. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 374 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Review

'Without doubt a magnificent novel - comic, imaginative . . . written with a feeling for the language that is quite remarkable.' -- Daily Telegraph

'A comic novel on the grand scale, written with tremendous confidence and verve . . . Llosa's huge energy and inventiveness is extravagant and fabulously funny.' --New Statesman

'This novel is as full of fizz as a giant pack of sherbet, witty, wise and wonderful in equal proportions.' -- Sunday Times

'A novel of immense vitality and imagination.' --Literary Review

'A comic novel that is genuinely funny . . . [and] never ceases to entertain.' --New York Times