Description: Further DetailsTitle: RexCondition: NewSubtitle: A NovelEAN: 9780802144836ISBN: 9780802144836Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/24/2010Description: Now in paperback, Jose Manuel Prieto's Rex is a sexy, zany, and sophisticated literary game rife with allusions to Proust and Borges, set in a world of wealthy Russian expats and mafiosos who have settled in western Europe. J. is a young Cuban man who, thanks to his knowledge of Russian and Spanish, has become the tutor of the young son of a wealthy Russian couple living in Marbella, in the part of southern Spain that the Russian mafia has turned into its winter quarters. As J. attempts to give the boy a general grade-school education by exclusively reading him Proust, he also becomes the personal secretary of the boy's father, Vasily, an ex-scientist that J. suspects is on the run from gangsters. Vasily's wife, Nelly, a seductive woman always draped in mind-boggling quantities of precious stones, believes the only way to evade the gangsters is an extravagant plan linking Vasily to the throne of the czars. Rex is an unforgettable achievement: an illusory, allusive gem of a novel that confirms Jose Manuel Prieto as one of the most talented writers of his generation.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 215mmItem Length: 139mmItem Weight: 297gTranslator: Esther AllenContributor: Esther Allen (Translated by)Genre: FictionAuthor: Jos Manuel PrietoRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Rex
Title: Rex
Subtitle: A Novel
EAN: 9780802144836
ISBN: 9780802144836
Release Date: 06/24/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Esther Allen
Contributor: Esther Allen (Translated by)
Book Title: Rex : a Novel
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Topic: Literary, Political, Biographical, Historical, Humorous / General
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.9 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: José Manuel Prieto
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
