Puig, Manuel <br/><br/>
The Buenos Aires affair 
/ Manuel Puig ; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine 
 - 1st Dalkey Archive ed. 
 - Champaign, Ill.  : Dalkey Archive Press  , 2010. 
 - 219 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Manuel Puig's masterful and ironic "detective novel" concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens -Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth-all combining to make a powerful portrait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe D'Onofrio, a lonely 35-year-old sculptor, tormented by her fantasies and perpetually in search of the ideal lover; and Leo Druscovich, an outwardly confident and successful art critic, deeply troubled by a terrible guilt that surfaces in his repeated sexual failures. Taking on, exchanging, and growing into the roles of victim and criminal, their lives presented through a variety of different kinds of evidence lists, scribbled notes, transcripts, one-sided interrogations-these two lost souls gradually find themselves entirely dependent on one another . . . and heading towards precisely the sort of violent ending a detective novel demands. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781564785800 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010007636 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women sculptors----Fiction<br/>Art critics----Fiction<br/>Psychological fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Mystery fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ7798.26.U4  / B813 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS FIC PUI