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Not long before his untimely death, Manuel Puig revised Under a Mantle of Stars, which is his first play written directly for the stage. Now available in this new edition with all of Puig's changes and a translator's note, Under a Mantle of Stars proclaims Puig the master of a Pirandellian world all his own, a world of fright and the frightfully funny, one where the characters slip among fantasies that blend elegiac desire with fierce lust. At...

In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle, a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s convalescing in a hospital, and a futuristic cyborg sex slave, occupying an artificial landscape. In the haunting and mysterious language for which he is renowned, Puing explores the links between these women, as well a...

Compiled together for the first time, here are three plays by Argentine novelist and playwright Manual Puig: the well-known Kiss of the Spider Woman, a sharply provocative tale of love, victimization, and fantasy, and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men imprisoned together in a Latin American jail, Puig's first drama written directly for the stage, Under a Mantle of Stars, a recurring dream that is never ending...