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Asleep in the Sun (New York Review Books Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Asleep in the SunLucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At first, it doesn't seem like such a problem, because the German shepherd inhabiting his wife's body is actually a good deal more agreeable than his wife herself, now occupying ...
Full description- Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
- Published: 01 August 2004
- Format: Paperback 172 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781590170953 ISBN 10: 1590170954
- Sales rank: 173,923
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Full description for Asleep in the Sun
Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At first, it doesn't seem like such a problem, because the German shepherd inhabiting his wife's body is actually a good deal more agreeable than his wife herself, now occupying the body of the same German shepherd in a mental hospital run by scientists who, it appears, have designs on the whole neighborhood. But then Lucio has a sense, however confused, of what's right, which is an even bigger problem yet.Asleep in the Sun is the great work of the Argentine master Adolfo Bioy Casares's later years. Like his legendary Invention of Morel, it is an intoxicating mixture of fantasy, sly humor, and menace. Whether read as a fable of modern politics, a meditation on the elusive parameters of the self, or a most unusual love story, Bioy's book is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a pure delight.
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