Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in the opposing currents that flow between security and personal freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work, provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender roles. This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa ...
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Like waves ebbing and flowing, love surges and subsides among four friends who share a vacation at the house on the beach. As they navigate the seas of love and friendship, jealousy and unfaithfulness, Elena, Marta, Eduardo, and Rafael are swept up in the opposing currents that flow between security and personal freedom, marriage and sexual liberation, family and work, provincial and city life, and traditional and unconventional gender roles. This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century. Juan Garcia Ponce helped Mexican arts and letters break out of the ossified styles and themes of the post-Revolutionary "Mexican School" with works that explore the conflict between individual desire and the demands of family and work. Written at a turning point in his career, The House on the Beach foreshadows his embrace of the erotic encounter as a means of undermining rigid, socially constructed personal identity. It supports feminist views and probes deeply into the contradictions, backwardness, and progress of modern Mexican society.
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Near Fine. 8vo. xx, [2], 202 pp. Bound in full natural cloth decoration stamped in metallic teal on cover, title in same on spine. Lacking dust jacket. Translated into English by Margarita Vargas and Juan Bruce-Novoa. Very Good+, tight, bright copy with minor soiling to extremities of binding.
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Very good. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Texas Pan American Series. Audience: General/trade. EX-LIBRARY S ITEMS (3515): FOLLOWING SPECIAL DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY: This sale is for a used: This book may be Contains: MARKER S MARKS, MISSING JD OR CUTTED COVER, WRITING Marking, Highlight, Answers for most Questions, Notes, Names, Marker s Marks, and/Under-lining. Back and front cover (wrinkled & creased), Stem s binding (Good), Water damaged (NONE), wrinkled pages (yes). You will be at most 65% satisfied with this item or your money back guarantee.
