Manuel Puig
Birth date: December 28, 1932
Died: July 22, 1990
Manuel Puig's Books
Written almost completely in dialogues & footnotes. Tragic & beautiful.
Kiss of the Spider Woman (or El Beso de la Mujer Arena) by Argentine writer Manuel Puig (pronounced Pooch) is the first Argentinian novel I’ve read. The novel is set during Argentina’s Dirty War (or just before it?) and deals mainly of the relationship between two contrasting prisoners sharing cell ...
I still remember when I first heard about this book. I was in my last year of high school and a friend was reading it as part of an essay for English class. I remember hearing her rave about how great it was and she let me read the back cover while we sat in a free period. She let me borrow it on...