Tropical Night Falling
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (1932-1990)
ISBN 10: 0671679961 ISBN 13: 9780671679965
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1991
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189 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine over green boards in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. First American edition. From one of Latin America's most celebrated writers--author of Kiss of the Spider Woman--comes his poignant yet hard-edged final novel. At the heart of the story are two elderly Argentine sisters who share a life of gentle gossip. But through their conversations, Puig reveals the chaotic, violent lives of their neighbors. Condition: Head corners gently bumped. Jacket price clipped else near fine in like jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS001942
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Two elderly Argentine sisters, Luci and Nidia, live in exile in Brazil, where they witness the suffering caused by the need to be loved
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Title: Tropical Night Falling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. 1st US. (1st US) Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. Slightly smaller book, purple cloth spine, light blue boards, gilt lettering very bright on spine, light blue inside covers and adjacent end papers, 189 lightly browned pages. DJ has colorful illustration on front with two green faces, shades of brown background, large purple flower on front and spine, small b/w photo of Puig at top back, praise for Puig from New York Times, New York Review of Books, Los Angeles Times. DJ white back badly smudged. Near Good DJ /Very Fine book. Seller Inventory # 29794
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1991. November 1991. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0671679961. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. 189 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Louise Fili. Jacket illustration by John Martinez. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer. keywords: Latin America Argentina Literature. DESCRIPTION - TROPICAL NIGHT FAILING, Manuel Puig's last work, written just before his premature death in 1990, involves characters at the margins of society - in this case, the world of the elderly. Confined by age, and in a country not their own, Puig's characters spin a mesmerizing tale. At the heart of the story are two aged Argentine sisters, Luci and Nidia, living in self-imposed exile in Brazil. At eighty, Luci has outlived her husband, having tended him throughout a debilitating illness. Nidia has tragically lost her daughter to cancer. Together they share a life of gentle gossip against the tropical background of Rio. But through their sisterly conversations, Puig reveals the chaos and violence of the world around them. There is their neighbor, Silvia, a middle-aged psychologist forced to leave Buenos Aires during a Peronist purge; having survived a number of skewed love affairs, she becomes entangled in a bizarre sexual relationship with a grieving widower. There is Rinaldo, the smiling, handsome night watchman who wins Nidia's friendly attentions; in time she learns he is preying on her thirteen-year-old maid. Then there are the seemingly harmless construction workers across the street; by night they engage in debauched orgies with captive women. These stories become the avenues through which Luci and Nidia vicariously encounter the vicissitudes of life, isolated as they are from the mainstream. The dialogue moves from the banal to the personal and then to the most profound questions of dependency and cruelty. inventory #15510. Seller Inventory # z15510
Tropical Night Falling
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ISBN 13: 9780671679965
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.00), rubbed at the back panel. Quarter purple cloth with green paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The last novel finished before Puig's death in 1990, it tells the story of two elderly Argentine sisters living in exile in Brazil. Seller Inventory # 10511
Tropical Night Falling
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First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Review copy with laid in slip and publisher sheet. A posthumous novel from the author of "Kiss of The Spider Woman." Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 184964
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. First printing of the American edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 18438
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Tropical Night Falling
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. Near fine with spine cocked a bit, remainder mark in a fine dust jacket. Completed just before author's death in 1990. Seller Inventory # 156461