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PublisherSerpent's Tail The Limited

ISBN-101852422874

ISBN-139781852422875

eBay Product ID (ePID)662386

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Book TitleSacred Cow

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicGeneral, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorDiamela Eltit

Book SeriesMasks Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight4.2 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-087663

Dewey Edition21

Reviews?Diamela Eltit has emerged as one of the strongest literary voices in Latin America today. One of a group of young Chilean writers who lived through military dictatorship rather than opt for exile, she uses the female body as a site for power relations and physical violence. Tough and uncompromising, this is sexual politics at its best? Jo Labanyi ?Eltit?s claustrophobic novel marries sexual violence and political repression with sickening intensity? Independent ?The first English translation of a stunning new voice in Latin American literature? El Mundo Latino

Dewey Decimal863

SynopsisAna spent one perfect night with Manuel. She told me about it quite unexpectedly, knowing in advance how hopelessly caught up I would become in her reminiscences. She went into a detailed description of her expensive, provocative outfit, and I could visualise her walking forward, her legs deliberately restricted by her shiny black dress. Ana confessed that she was so driven by her depraved desire that night that she consciously sought to focus people's looks on the violent rippling of her thighs, barely disguised beneath the shiny black material. I watched her smiling and it hurt.'As the forces of political repression encircle Santiago, the capital of Chile, the narrator raises the question of the relationship between her sexual cravings and fantasies and the domination of women in Chilean society. Sacred Cow is an intense, erotic unveiling of the human psyche., Ana spent one perfect night with Manuel. She told me about it quite unexpectedly, knowing in advance how hopelessly caught up I would become in her reminiscences. She went into a detailed description of her expensive, provocative outfit, and I could visualise her walking forward, her legs deliberately restricted by her shiny black dress. Ana confessed that she was so driven by her depraved desire that night that she consciously sought to focus people's looks on the violent rippling of her thighs, barely disguised beneath the shiny black material. I watched her smiling and it hurt. As the forces of political repression encircle Santiago, the capital of Chile, the narrator raises the question of the relationship between her sexual cravings and fantasies and the domination of women in Chilean society. Sacred Cow is an intense, erotic unveiling of the human psyche., ?Ana spent one perfect night with Manuel. She told me about it quite unexpectedly, knowing in advance how hopelessly caught up I would become in her reminiscences. She went into a detailed description of her expensive, provocative outfit, and I could visualise her walking forward, her legs deliberately restricted by her shiny black dress. Ana confessed that she was so driven by her depraved desire that night that she consciously sought to focus people's looks on the violent rippling of her thighs, barely disguised beneath the shiny black material. I watched her smiling and it hurt.? As the forces of political repression encircle Santiago, the capital of Chile, the narrator raises the question of the relationship between her sexual cravings and fantasies and the domination of women in Chilean society. Sacred Cow is an intense, erotic unveiling of the human psyche.

LC Classification NumberPQ8098.15.L78V3313