Heartbreak tango
By: Manuel Puig ; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine ; [introduction by Francisco Goldman]
Contributors: Levine, Suzanne Jill
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Series: Argentinian literature series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Champaign [Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781564785534
Work titles: Boquitas pintadas
Description: Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop songs, and movies. This melancholy and hilarious tango concerns the many women in orbit around Juan Carlos Etchepare, an impossibly beautiful Lothario wasting away ever-so-slowly from consumption, while those who loved and were spurned by him move on into workaday lives and unhappy marriages.
Notes: Translated from the Spanish.