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Thursday Night Widows
Claudia Piñeiro
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Description for Thursday Night Widows
Paperback. Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Translator(s): France, Miranda. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278. 227 pages. Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Dimension: 131 x 199 x 21. Weight: 282. Translator(s): France, Miranda.
Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Claudia Pineiro's novel eerily foreshadowed a criminal case that generated a scandal in the Argentine media. But this is more than a story about crime. The suspense is a by-product of Pineiro's hand at crafting a psychological portrait of a professional class that lives ... Read more
Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Claudia Pineiro's novel eerily foreshadowed a criminal case that generated a scandal in the Argentine media. But this is more than a story about crime. The suspense is a by-product of Pineiro's hand at crafting a psychological portrait of a professional class that lives ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Number of pages
227
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904738411
SKU
V9781904738411
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Ref
99-6
About Claudia Piñeiro
Claudia Pineiro was a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pleyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction and is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into four languages. This novel won the Clarin Prize for fiction and is her first title ... Read more
Reviews for Thursday Night Widows
"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying societyA"-Jose Saramago A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait not only of Argentina, but of the affluent Western world as a whole.A"-Rosa Montero