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The Tango Singer: A Novel Tomas Eloy Martinez Hardcover Good
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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2006
- ISBN
- 9781582346014
- Book Title
- Tango Singer : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.1in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary, Action & Adventure
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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A hypnotic novel in which an American student's quest to find the greatest living tango singer leads him deep into the labyrinth of Argentina 's past. It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer rumored to be even better than Carlos Gardel, the greatest singer of the 1920s and '30s. Martel has never recorded and his strange, powerful performances, at seemingly arbitrary sites around the city, are always unannounced. Cadogan finds lodging in a boarding house rumored to be the setting of the famous Borges story The Aleph, and soon finds himself drawn into the tangle of legends surrounding the singer's life. As the economic tension grows and the city hovers on the verge of riots, Bruno begins to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances are in fact far from random--that they instead form a map of the darkest moments in the city's past.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1582346011
ISBN-13
9781582346014
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50797678
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tango Singer : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Action & Adventure
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq7798.23.A692c3613
Reviews
"Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martínez moves through stories of Evita's life and death--and the peregrinations of her body--with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers." -- The New York Times on Santa Evita "For Martinez, this tale--which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender--isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul." -- Salon.com on Santa Evita "Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read." --Gabriel García Márquez on Santa Evita, For Martinez, this tale--which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender--isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul., Praise for "Santa Evita": " " "Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martinez moves through stories of Evita's life and death--and the peregrinations of her body--with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers."--"New York Times""""" "For Martinez, this tale--which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender--isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul."--Salon.com "Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read."--Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Praise for Santa Evita: "Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martínez moves through stories of Evita's life and death-and the peregrinations of her body-with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers."-New York Times "For Martinez, this tale-which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender-isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul."-Salon.com "Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read."-Gabriel García Márquez, Brilliant...A superb craftsman, Mr. Martinez moves through stories of Evita's life and death--and the peregrinations of her body--with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers., Praise for "Santa Evita": " " " Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Marti nez moves through stories of Evita' s life and death-- and the peregrinations of her body-- with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America' s best writers." -- "New York Times""""" " For Martinez, this tale-- which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender-- isn' t just a way into his country' s essence but into its soul." -- Salon.com " Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read." -- Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez, Praise forSanta Evita: Â"Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martínez moves through stories of Evita's life and deathÂ--and the peregrinations of her bodyÂ--with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers.Â"Â--New York Times Â"For Martinez, this taleÂ--which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavenderÂ--isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul.Â"Â--Salon.com Â"Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read.Â"Â--Gabriel García Márquez, Praise forSanta Evita: "Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martínez moves through stories of Evita's life and death-and the peregrinations of her body-with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers."-New York Times "For Martinez, this tale-which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender-isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul."-Salon.com "Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read."-Gabriel García Márquez, Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martínez moves through stories of Evita's life and death--and the peregrinations of her body--with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers., Praise for Santa Evita : "Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martínez moves through stories of Evita's life and death--and the peregrinations of her body--with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers."-- New York Times "For Martinez, this tale--which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender--isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul."-- Salon.com "Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read."-- Gabriel García Márquez, "Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martnez moves through stories of Evita's life and death--and the peregrinations of her body--with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers." -- The New York Times on Santa Evita "For Martinez, this tale--which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender--isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul." -- Salon.com on Santa Evita "Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read." --Gabriel Garca Mrquez on Santa Evita, Praise forSanta Evita: "Brilliant... A superb craftsman, Mr. Martínez moves through stories of Evita's life and death--and the peregrinations of her body--with a dazzling array of literary devices...He affirms his place among Latin America's best writers."--New York Times "For Martinez, this tale--which he relates in fetid, intoxicating prose, as eerily enticing as the faint odor of lavender--isn't just a way into his country's essence but into its soul."--Salon.com "Finally, here is the novel that I have always wanted to read."--Gabriel García Márquez
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
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2005-044883
Dewey Decimal
863/.64
Dewey Edition
22
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