Peel My Love Like an Onion: A NovelPeel My Love Like an Onion is the breakthrough novel from Ana Castillo, author of the wildly praised So Far from God--a lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing. Carmen "La Coja" ("the cripple") Santos is a flamenco dancer of local renown in Chicago, despite the obstacle of a handicapped leg, the legacy of a childhood attack of polio. From the beginning of her professional career, she has carried on an affair with Agustín, the married director of her troupe--a romance that is going stale from overfamiliar lust and an absence of honesty. But when she begins a passionate liaison with the younger Manolo, Agustín'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 ŕ la Ana Castillo--equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody. Laced with sarcastic asides and dead-on observations, Peel My Love Like an Onion is a universal work imbued with love's power to vex and exalt. |
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PEEL MY LOVE LIKE AN ONION
User Review - Jane Doe - KirkusCastillo (Loverboys, 1996, etc.) covers familiar territory here—the trials and tribulations of passion, displacement, and cultural identity—but offers a pleasing combination of the light and cheeky ... Read full review
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictCarmen "La Coja" ("The Cripple") is a flamenco dancer despite her bad leg (she had polio as a child). This is not, however, a sentimental story about her triumph over tragedy, though in an inspired ... Read full review
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| Title | Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel |
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1999 |
| Original from | University of Texas |
| Digitized | Sep 11, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0385496761, 9780385496766 |
| Length | 213 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary |
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