Betrayed by Rita Hayworth Classics_Gift_Guide Ziauddin expresses the complex pain

Ziauddin expresses the complex pain and joy of his return

a polished PR rep who has no interest in rodeos

with a novel twist

"One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century

they overlook the mercurial—and treacherous—nature of the human heart

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth Classics_Gift_Guide Ziauddin expresses the complex painManuel Puig's "dazzling and wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossipbut most of all, to the movies. When it appeared in 1968, Manuel Puigs debuta portrait of the artist as a child in small town Argentinawas hailed as revolutionary. Borrowing from the language of "true romance" and movie magazines, the techniques of American