The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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- Paperback
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0140283595
- ISBN 13
- 9780140283594
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About This Item
New York, NY Penguin Books, 1999. Paperback First Edition Thus (1999), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First published in Spanish in 1977. First Edition Thus (1999), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First published in Spanish in 1977. Very Near Fine in Wraps: the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single minor, unobtrusive imperfection. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.35 z 0.65 inches). 259 pages. Translated by Edith Grossman.Language: English. Weight: 8.5 ounces. Trade Paperback. Mario Vargas Llosa (born in 1936), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Deliciously challenging, delightfully lurid, this novel tempts the reader into the world of a married couple from Lima, the successful Don Rigoberto and his second wife, Lucrecia. Husband and wife, as the story opens, are separated; Rigoberto has a vivid imagination, and in his wife's absence, he inscribes in notebooks, by night, his remembrances and fantasies and wishes vis-a-vis her sexual abilities. What is real about this couple's lives and what is simply embroidery by Don Rigoberto in his notebooks? Vargas Llosa makes certain the reader is not always certain. Vargas Llosa employes lush language and suitably languid tone to depict the satisfactions and frustrations of the narrators' sexuality.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 57372
- Title
- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.
- Author
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus (1999), First Printing indicated by a complet
- ISBN 10
- 0140283595
- ISBN 13
- 9780140283594
- Publisher
- Penguin Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature: World; Spanish Literature; Fiction: Collectible Paperbacks; Modern Fiction First Editions;
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