Peel my love like an onion
a novel
by Ana Castillo
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"Carmen "La Coja" ("the cripple") Santos is a flamenco dancer of local renown in Chicago, despite the obstacle of a gimpy leg, the legacy of a childhood attack of polio. From the beginning of her professional career, she has carried on an affair with Agustin, the married director of her troupe - a romance that is going stale from over-familiar lust and an absence of honesty.
But when she begins a passionate liaison with the younger Manolo, Agustin'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 a la Ana Castillo - equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody."--BOOK JACKET.
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Carmen la Coja
2000, Vintage Español
in Spanish
- 1. ed. de Vintage Español.
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A novel on a plucky flamenco dancer in Chicago. It follows her from her rise to fame despite a crippled leg from polio, to her descent as the polio returns, her two lovers abandon her and she is reduced to working in a sweatshop. But Carmen will recoup. By the author of So Far from God. via Worldcat.org
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