IMAGINING ARGENTINA NOVEL by LAWRENCE THORNTON (1987) 1st ED

Description: 1. ARC To be published by Doubleday (New York 1987), this is the ADVANCE READING COPY in illustrated wrappers, preceding the hardcover edition. 214 pp. Cover lightly scuffed and crease near bottom of back cover, still about Brand New. Unread. Proofs and advance reading copies are considered the 'true' first edition by many collectors. Since they are produced in rela-tively small numbers, they are highly desirable. They are also usually printed on better paper than ordinary paperback edi-tions. 2. Published by Doubleday (New York 1987). First edition stated. Hardcover, bound in dark blue paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip; dust jacket unclipped with original $16.95 price. Publisher's announcement laid in. 214 pp. Book spine top is bumped and black jacket slightly scuffed, still Brand New. Unread. When his wife suddenly vanishes, Carlos Rueda, director of the Children's Theatre in Buenos Aires, discovers that his magical visions of the fate of the innocent people disappearing in Argentina in the repressive days of the late 1970s, the time of the "desaparecidos" ("the dis-appeared"), when young men and women of suspected left-wing leanings were abducted by the ruling military junta in the dead of night and never seen or heard from again. As a National Reconciliation Tribunal uncovered much later, they were thrown from military planes supplied by the United States, drugged but still alive, into the shark-infested waters of their unknowing country. Thornton and other con-science-stricken writers write to ensure that the indescribable suffering of victims is not in under the dustbin of History. As he once said, he writes "to prove that the victors do not write history". "A brave, inventive, and powerful novel" (J. M. Coetzee). Author's second book, first novel, and the basis for the movie starring Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson. Winner of the 1987 PEN/Hemingway Award, Imagining Argentina is a haunting magical realist novel in the spirit of Garcia-Marquez.

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