false 3229896 1 In this extraordinary short story collection, acclaimed Mexican writer Liliana Blum presents us with a startling, tender and often hilarious take on modern life. In the affecting title story, the very ordinary fate of a young mother is laid bare as the stuff of tragedy. In Kisses on the Forehead, a personal ad leads to a desperate tryst between a virgin and a vagabond, while A Model Kit invites us to observe an unorthodox artist and his odious methods of creation. A young woman's adventures with a porn star inspire an unlikely new vocation in God Bless Ron Jeremy, and in To Adorn the Saints the appearance of a naked virgin in the bell-tower wreaks havoc on the village of San Cordelio de Cocoyotl. With lush, elegant prose, Blum performs an unflinching psychological autopsy on her twisted cast of characters, and offers a surreal yet plausible vision of life in the villages and port towns of her homeland. Appearing in English for the first time, The Curse of Eve illuminates the vagaries of marriage, motherhood and morality, and perfectly encapsulates the many small ways in which we make sense of our daily lives. 3264280 7 9 2008 The Curse of Eve: And Other Stories total:4|5:3|2:1| 4 17 7 2 0 1 false false Tue Apr 22 17:04:25 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 19:46:12 -0700 2008 ThePedestalMagazine.com


In his watershed book Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." In The Curse of Eve and Other Stories, Mexican writer Liliana Blum has refined the human desperation of...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 01:37:25 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 20:42:36 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Nov 29 11:46:37 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 20:57:57 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Oct 08 15:03:41 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 15:03:41 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Fri Nov 21 01:15:13 -0800 2008 Mon Aug 18 01:05:44 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 21 01:15:13 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jul 06 02:54:25 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 02:57:30 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jun 11 09:57:13 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 09:57:13 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3229896