Peel My Love Like an Onion by Ana Castillo (Hardback)

This is a used hardback book with dust jacket in very good condition!

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Condition: Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. Author: Ana Castillo Format: Hardcover Publisher: Doubleday ISBN-10: 0385496761 ISBN-13: 9780385496766 Subject: Drama Publication Year: 1999 Topic: -- Special Attributes: -- Language: English

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Synopsis
A Chicago flamenco dancer with a bad leg spurns her longtime married lover for a young dancer, and the eternal triangle threatens to lead to serious complications in Carmen's already tumultuous life.
Size
Length:	213 pages
Height:	8.8 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	1 in.
Weight:	13.6 oz.
Publisher's Note
Peel My Love Like an Onion is the breakthrough novel from Ana Castillo, author of the wildly praised So Far from God--a lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing. Carmen "La Coja" ("the cripple") Santos is a flamenco dancer of local renown in Chicago, despite the obstacle of a handicapped leg, the legacy of a childhood attack of polio. From the beginning of her professional career, she has carried on an affair with Agustín, the married director of her troupe--a romance that is going stale from overfamiliar lust and an absence of honesty. But when she begins a passionate liaison with the younger Manolo, Agustín's godson and a dancer of natural genius, an angry rivalry is sparked. Add to that the looming reassertion of her crippling disease and Carmen's vexed relations with her mother, one of the most exasperating parents in recent literature, and you have all the ingredients for a love story à la Ana Castillo--equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody. Laced with sarcastic asides and dead-on observations, Peel My Love Like an Onion is a universal work imbued with love's power to vex and exalt. A breakthrough novel from the author of the acclaimed "So Far from God"--a lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing.
Industry reviews
"Could be the offspring of a union between ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE and GENERAL HOSPITAL." catalog - Vanessa Friedman (09/17/1999) "The remarkable thing about PEEL MY LOVE LIKE AN ONION is that although it's littered with hackneyed phrases and unanswered questions..., its narrator emerges as a complex, likable character....Jaunty and insecure, Carmen comes to life despite Castillo's slapdash prose." New York Times Book Review - Margot Mifflin (09/19/1999) "Observant and witty, if not altogether exceptional: Castillo creates a poignant portrait of passion lost and regained." Sullivan "The plot teeters on the brink of soap opera but never falls over the edge, thanks to the rigorously exact rhythms of Castillo's prose..." Schorer

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