

In original unclipped ($8.95) color patterned dust jacket based on design by Josef Hoffmann. Kiss of the Spider Woman E-bok The Queer Classic Everyone Should Read Finns ven som Kundrecensioner (0) Du kanske gillar Fler bcker av Manuel Puig We.

Biographer Levine argues that THE NEW YORK TIMES broke its "unspoken policy" not to review books with clear gay content by featuring FALCONER by John Cheever in the wake of that success, Knopf took on KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN. She nurses back to health a shipwrecked man. In 1976, the original Spanish edition was published by Seix Barral in Spain it was not until 1979 that Knopf finally published the English translation. That evening Molina tells a new story about a beautiful woman on a tropical island ensnared in a web that grows from her own body.

Puig had trouble finding publishers for his experimental novel - narrated almost entirely through dialogue - with explicitly queer content. First US edition of the Argentine author's best-known novel, a complex queer romance in prison, the basis for the Academy Award-winning film of the same name.
