{"product_id":"9781588713032","title":"Love Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiguel Delibes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Teresa Boucher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiguel Delibes (1920-2010) was born and died in Valladolid, Spain. He was a novelist, journalist, newspaper editor, professor, and father of seven. He won virtually every literary prize awarded in Spain from the Nadal Prize for his first novel in 1948 to the Cervantes Prize in 1993 to the National Prize for Narrative for his last novel in 1999. In 1973 he was elected to the Royal Spanish Academy. He delivered his inaugural address in 1975, his wife having died in the interim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelibes is the author of twenty novels and numerous collections of short stories and essays. Nine of his novels have been adapted to film, one to theater, and one to television. To date, eleven of his works have been translated into English. \u003cem\u003eLove Letter from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian\u003c\/em\u003e is the first English translation of \u003cem\u003eCartas de amor de un sexagenario voluptuoso\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in 1983. This novel has already been translated into Bosnian, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian—but only now into English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLove Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian\u003c\/em\u003e, our antihero, Eugenio Sanz Vecilla, a sixty-five-year-old retired Castilian newspaperman, reads a personal ad in \u003cem\u003eSentimental Correspondence\u003c\/em\u003e while in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. Thus begins a six-month exchange of letters with Rocío, a fifty-six-year-old widow from Seville whose son, Federico, is writing a graduate thesis on censorship of the press in the 1940s under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. This novel, an epistolary mono-dialogue, weaves a comic love story with an unwitting exposé of the state of journalism under an authoritarian regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTeresa Boucher\u003c\/strong\u003e holds the Ph.D. from Princeton University in Romance Languages and Literatures. She is professor of Spanish at Boise State University. She has published articles, book reviews, and a monograph on Miguel Delibes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LinguaText, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031008788720,"sku":"9781588713032","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781588713032_p0.jpg?v=1763807966","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781588713032","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}