Suzanne Jill Levine's biography, Manuel Puig and The Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions.(Review)

From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: GRIFFIN, MARK | Copyright information

"Maybe I shouldn't have taken him to the movies so much," Manuel Puig's mother would reflect some year's after her son's death in 1990. And yet, if it hadn't been for those early, indelible screenings of Blood and Sand and other 35-millimeter dreams, there may never have been a Manuel Puig. The most fascinating passages of Suzanne Jill Levine's biography, Manuel Puig and The Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), have nothing to do with Puig's reputation a...

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