false 77298 35 Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane. Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is hilarious, mischievous, and masterful, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review. [Amazon.com] 1508442 1977 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel total:851|5:231|4:346|3:205|2:56|1:13| 851 3279 1158 98 2 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 06:19:41 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 13:12:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Feb 16 08:04:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 20:59:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 05:37:28 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 07:06:57 -0800 2009
This is novel of two lives, both at critical junctures, told in two vastly different formats. The first, semi-aut...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 14:39:08 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 06:12:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false true Fri Feb 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 15:39:47 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 16:11:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 06:09:15 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 10:36:37 -0700 2008
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pentru o prima intiln...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 11:49:32 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 15:13:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 02 14:42:15 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:42:15 -0700 2009 Those who have read it will recall that there are two different themes al...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 18:47:05 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 12:11:56 -0700 2009 Overwritten and underdeveloped.

Amusing, vaguely autobiographical novel (the main character is "Mario Vargas," although the author's introduction makes clear it's only loosely based on his own experience) about a young Peruvian man who falls for his uncle's sister-in-law, a rece...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 17:55:08 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 17:07:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 04:42:14 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 12:31:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 16:01:15 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 17:02:47 -0800 2008 2 What’s memorable about this book is how the narrator’s emergence is paired with his courage to ignore convention and outward appearance in his courtship of his Aunt and the courage of a screenwriter to use hi...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 30 07:04:09 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 23 06:26:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jun 03 19:09:31 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 19:09:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 22 13:08:21 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 11 08:41:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 16 22:43:21 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 22:44:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Tue May 29 12:11:40 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 12:11:40 -0700 2007 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter had been on my "to read" list for awhile. This entertaining and humorous book is about 18 year old Mario who lives with his grandparents in Lima, Peru. He has a large family with lots of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Mario's dream...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 25 01:03:31 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 28 01:39:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 21 05:58:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 15 08:54:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 29 08:40:55 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 08:47:00 -0800 2008 more...]]>