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Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer: Vaudeville Novel

Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer: Vaudeville Novel Paperback / softback - 1998

by Alicia Borinsky

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This post-modern, award-winning novel's vaudeville qualities--with characters shuffling on and off the page in rapid succession--are complemented by its exhilarating air of parody. DREAMS draws ingeniously upon the sentimentality and ephemera of popular culture--quoting radio and TV shows, song lyrics, newspaper items, and bits of gossip--while also offering a sterner, more nuanced view of public and private relations.

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Paperback / softback. New. A novel that takes place in the new 'free market' era of personal choices and relations: a chaotic, sometimes hopeful, often comic world that has supplanted the old order of political terror and clearly demarcated ideological divides. It draws upon the sentimentality and ephemera of popular culture.
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  • Title Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer: Vaudeville Novel
  • Author Alicia Borinsky
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bison Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-05-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780803261440
  • ISBN 9780803261440 / 0803261446
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.27 x 0.69 in (21.49 x 13.39 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects City and town life - Fiction, Experimental fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-35668
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 05/04/1998, Page 204

About the author

Alicia Borinsky received the 1996 Latino Literature Award, given by the Institute of Latin American Writers, for Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer. Borinsky's Mean Woman was published in Cola Franzen's translation by the University of Nebraska Press in 1993. Borinsky is a professor of Latin American and comparative literature at Boston University. Cola Franzen is a writer and independent translator.