René's Flesh by Virgilio Piñera

René's Flesh

Virgilio Piñera

256 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ dark reflective medium-paced
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Finally available in paperback, one of the neglected masterpieces of Latin American literature -- an obsessive, yet lucid, exploration of the human body as a nexus of power and pleasure.Twenty-year-old Rene is sent to be groomed at a boarding scho...

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