Bedside Manners (High Risk Books) Her heroine attempts to thwart a group of soldiers plotting to bring military rule to a Latin American country..The Argentinian author of Open Door and The Lizard's Tail presents a sexy comedy of man
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| Title | : | Bedside Manners (High Risk Books) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1852423137 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1994-01-01 |
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Editorial : From Publishers Weekly In this brisk satire, a woman returns to her newly democratized Latin American home and at the suggestion of a friend, retreats to a country club for some rest. To her mounting bewilderment, the country's unexpected turmoil pursues her into the cocoon: the cost of croissants skyrockets by the minute; a military coup brews in her bungalow; and an uprising threatens to spill from a shanty town adjacent to the club's golf links. Meanwhile, a Jekyll-and-Hyde-like cab driver who moonlights as a doctor makes for a confusing lover, as a gallant seduction-by-stethoscope turns into a chauvinist rant the morning after. The narrative takes on the aspect of political burlesque as militia men spring from beneath the woman's bed or goose-step into her room from the television set. At the center of the action, never once leaving her bed, the woman grapples with her passivity, a fertile image at once comic and enraging. Valenzuela artfully communicates that sexual, national, pol
The Argentinian author of Open Door and The Lizard's Tail presents a sexy comedy of manners. Her heroine attempts to thwart a group of soldiers plotting to bring military rule to a Latin American country.
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Green's main argument, summarized sparely in the other review, is that imagination forms the divine-human 'point of contact,' which was the meat of the Karl Barth-Emil Brunner debates of the late 1920s-1930s. Badal reports how the detectives assigned to track this killer often felt they were drowning in the dregs of human dysfunction as they pursued their elusive quarry over the years. This was the man who painted the "Mona Lisa" and invented the armored tank, diving suit, bicyc
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