Mad Toy

Roberto Arlt

Translated by Michele Aynesworth earliest edition we have, 2002 Duke University Press, 2002 hardcover 170 pages

"Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. Mad Toy, acclaimed by many as Arlt's best novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the badlands of adolescence, where...

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Michele Aynesworth 2 printings we hold · 2002 · Duke University Press

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Mad Toy hardcover · 2002 · Duke University Press · 170 pages · 9780822329114
Mad Toy paperback · 2002 · Duke University Press · 170 pages · 9780822329404

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