Holy Place Tapa dura - 1972

Penguin Publishing Group, 1978. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

E. P. Dutton, January 1972. Trade Trade. Good. Good Softcover. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine has light rubbing. Textblock lightly soiled. A few pages have bent corner. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

New York. 1978. October 1978. Dutton. 1st Appearance of This Novella By Itself. Very Good in Wrappers. 0525475281. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. This Story First Appeared In A Collection Called TRIPLE CROSS With Stories by Both Sarduy and Donoso. 144 pages. paperback. Cover illustration by Elias Dominquez . keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This novel is indeed a stunning combination of the cosmopolitan present and the mythological past, the two extended metaphors in the work being Circe and the cinema - the goddess who turns men into swine and the medium that turns reality into celluloid. Before he metaphorically turns into a dog, the protagonist, a young Mexican man, spends all of his time and energy trying to achieve a greater intimacy with his mother, who, in turn, avoids him as zealously as he pursues her. The son is something of a Wildean dandy, living in an Art Nouveau grotto where he has enshrined his mama and her films. The mother… Leer más

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good-. 1978. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0525475281 . This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have several tiny spots of ground-in dirt. There is some bumping ane nicking to the top edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a small green marker spot on the bottom edge of the text block. "Carlos Fuentes has been called "the Balzac of Mexico". Fuentes himself cited Miguel de Cervantes, William Faulkner and Balzac as the most important writers to him. He also named Latin American writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Juan Carlos Onetti, Miguel Angel Asturias and Jorge Luis Borges. European modernists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust has also been cited as important influences on his writing, with Fuentes applying the influence from them on his main theme; Mexican history and identity. " (from Wikipedia) .

New York: Dutton, 1978. 1st printing. Trade paperback in glossy color illus wraps.. Fine unmarked, no spine creases.. Beautiful and bizarre novel about a Mexican man and his mother. Bright tight clean crisp copy of PB 1st. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4, 144 pp.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. Softcover. Very Good. First American paperback edition. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine. Wrappers lightly toned and curled, very good.

NY: DUTTON.. Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0525475281 . First American edition. Trade-size paperback original. Originally published as part of a 3 novella collection. This is the first separate edition. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.