Los Cuadernos De Don Rigoberto

New York, NY: Penguin Books. Near Fine. 1998. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps: shows a single page dog-eared at the upper corner and a couple of pages inadvertently creased at the tip of the lower corner; the expected tanning to the text pages due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.75 x 5.15 x 0.75 inches). Language: Spanish. Weight: 9.2 ounces. First published in 1997; This Penguin Ediciones Edition first published in 1998. Fourth Printing thus. Trade Paperback. Deliciously challenging, delightfully lurid, the latest novel by the famous Peruvian writer tempts the reader into the world of a married couple from Lima, the successful Don Rigoberto and his second wife, Lucrecia. Husband and wife, as the story opens, are separated; Rigoberto has a vivid imagination, and in his wife's absence, he inscribes in notebooks, by night, his remembrances and fantasies and wishes vis-a-vis her sexual abilities. What is real about this couple's lives and what is simply embroidery by Don Rigoberto in his notebooks? Vargas Llosa makes certain the reader is not always certain...lush language and suitably languid tone in depicting the satisfaction of sexual congress. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 384 pages .