Finally back in print, Manuel Puig\'s celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies.
He emigrated to Marrakech a year after the death of his wife in 1996..
There he met his future wife, Monique Langue and Jean Genet, who influenced his vision of literature.
About the Author: In Paris, he worked as a consultant for the publisher Gallimard while he was also working on his own oeuvre.
Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to the town\'s secrets and always eager to fill in the ugly or upsetting moments of his childhood with Hollywood-inspired fantasy, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth is a symphony of disappointed, comic, bitter, and bawdy voices, all hemmed in by life\'s refusal to behave like the silver screen, and is perhaps the funniest and most honest coming-of-age story of its time.
Finally back in print, Manuel Puig\'s celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies
