In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this classic novel erotically explores the relationships in one family.

Mario Vargas Llosa lures readers into a passionate world of family life and erotic love with the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucretia, and Rigoberto's prepubescent son, Alfonso. Although the group appears to be a happy household, within this small constellation lurk the shadows of perversion and the limitless boundaries of familial passion.

"Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns. . . . Erotically stimulating, artfully self-assured, In Praise of the Stepmother is a steamy as it is intelligent." —Newsday
"Startling . . . Not only would an American presidential candidate not have written it, but the National Endowment for the Arts wouldn't have given it a grant." —The New Yorker

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Author Mario Vargas Llosa

Published Sep 1990

Main Genre General Fiction

Pages 160

Rating 4.5

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Nov 2002 Picador ISBN 0312421303

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Oct 1991 Penguin ISBN 0140157085

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First Edition Sep 1990 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374175837

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Mar 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 1429921838

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Mar 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN B004QGYWNU

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Dec 2012 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN 0571268188

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