{"product_id":"9780930829322","title":"Under a Mantle of Stars: Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his first work written directly for the stage, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Kiss of the Spider Woman\u003c\/i\u003e creates a hilarious and shocking clash of desire and reality. Readers accustomed to Puig's dramatic novels will find in \u003ci\u003eUnder a Mantle of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e a two-act drama that reads like a novella. Into the home of a bourgeois family come two strangers on their way to a masquerade ball. Within moments, the masters of the house take their visitors for long-dead friends, the sumptuous couple turns out to be a pair of jewel thieves fleeing the police, and the daughter is trapped in a melodramatic farce in which she takes the thief to be her ex-fiance while her mother believes him to be the lover she has waited for these past twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eManuel Puig\u003c\/i\u003e first gained international recognition with his novel, \u003ci\u003eBetrayed by Rita Hayworth\u003c\/i\u003e, and went on to further fame and critical acclaim with \u003ci\u003eThe Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Under a Mantle of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is his first play written directly for the stage as well as the first to be published in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Puig is \"one of the most consistently interesting . . . [authors] . . . to have emerged anywhere during the past ten years.\" \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e has said that Puig is \"both a funny writer and a tenderly elegiac one.\" And the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e has commented that \"his mastery of plot, counterplot, the characters' scheming, his own, . . . lifts Puig into the circle of his peers,\" such as Borges and Garcia Marquez.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ronald Christ's translation is an authentic and careful rendering of this original work. The English version clearly replicates Puig's idiosyncratic forms of speech, characterization, and stage direction. Christ has created a script that is highly theatrical, interesting, and playable in English. . . . [\u003ci\u003eUnder a Mantle of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e] stands on its own merits . . . [it] leaves us asking for more Puig as playwright and more Ronald Christ as translator.\"—Rodney Carl Reading, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Theater Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lumen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020075155696,"sku":"9780930829322","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780930829322_p0.jpg?v=1763866591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930829322","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}