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Penguin
August 2011
On Sale: August 18, 2011
Featuring: Daisy; Isolde
126 pages
ISBN: 1594488304
EAN: 9781594488306
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
A glittering, energetic novel about three women-each
experiencing an awakening in the gloriously conflicted and
sexy city of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is a city of
Parisian affections and national anxiety, of amorous young
lovers, seedy ports, flooded slums, and a dazzling social
elite. Into this heady maze of contradiction and possibility
enter two women: Daisy, an American divorcée; and Isolde, a
beautiful, lonely Austrian. In Buenos Aires, Isolde finds
that her blond European looks afford her entrée to the kind
of elite, alluring social world she never would have had
access to in her home country, but her ascension also sets
her up for a long, surprising fall. Meanwhile, Daisy joins
forces with Leonarda, a chameleonic Argentine with radical
dreams of rebellion, who transfixes Daisy with her wild
effervescence. Soon, Daisy is throwing off her American
earnestness and engaging in a degree of passion,
manipulation, and risk-taking in a way she never has before.
Buenos Aires has allowed her to become someone else. Against
the throbbing backdrop of this shimmering and decadent city-
almost a character in itself-Maxine Swann has created a
stunning narrative of reawakened sensuality and compulsive
desire that simultaneously explores with remarkable acuity
themes of foreignness, displacement, and the trembling
metamorphoses that arise from such states. From the
award-winning, critically celebrated author of Flower
Children, The Foreigners is a startlingly bold and original,
unforgettable next novel.
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