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Among the great corpses of our age are Lenin, Mao Zedong and Stalin. Mao, at least, is still on view for the masses to see, some two decades after his demise. But no corpse engendered as much intrigue as that of Eva Peron. Elevated to near sainthood in Argentina after her death in 1952, her perfectly preserved corpse was seized by the Argentine Army following the ouster of her husband in 1955. By then, her corpse was the equivalent of a sacred relic, and while army officials wanted to keep it out of the hands of Peronists, they were loath to destroy the corpse for fear of the wrath that might follow. Tomas Eloy Martinez has reassembled the story of the corpse of Eve Peron in
Santa Evita, and in the process, produced a riveting, rich book that not only tells the tale of one of the more bizarre sagas in the history of South American politics, but that also gets to the heart of the age-old human impulse to create myths and tell stories.
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From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about the legendary Eva Peron. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins.
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Purchase of Santa Evita.......2007-03-19
The product was sent to me ahead of schedule and in great condition. The book itself is very well written and interesting. I find the novel to be surprising at every turn. Tomas Eloy Martinez is a fabulous writer. If you get a chance to read the book, please do because it is definitely great to the end.
A great historical novel.......2005-10-19
T. Eloy Martínez offers a truly special portrayal of Argentina's
first lady, Eva Perón. The story of her wandering cadaver is haunting, tragic and at times quite hilarious, and always mind-blowing. I recommend this novel. (I'm not sure the English translation is decent, so if you can, read it in Spanish). It's a great example of the poststructuralist novel of the 20th century.
Even in death that woman still haunts us..........2005-04-21
Spanish author Tomas Eloy Martinez was forced out of Argentina by Isabel Peron (Juan Peron's third wife)so it is no wonder that he is able to speak so passionately about the deposed dictator and his second wife, Evita.
Martinez takes the reader through his mindset while writing the book as he cites interviews with hairdressers, butlers, and other people close to the first lady. He untangles what happened after he death as she is embalmed and shows the life of Moori Koenig, the Colonel who was given the order to get rid of the corpse.
In detail it describes writings and instances that the first lady went through in her final days. Example, her butler rigged her scale so that it would always read 93 pounds. The butler did this so that Eva wouldn't think she was losing weight. There are also instances where he talks about how she would be so persistant to get out of bed that she would get up and get dressed before anyone else came into the room as to not be stopped.
This is a great read particularly if you liked Andrew Lloyd Webber's EVITA and wanted to see what happened to her corpse. I also highly recommend the Argentine film EVA PERON, which details the last year or so of Evita's life.
Eva's death wish come true.......2005-03-26
A fictional account of the myth of Eva Peron that delves into the latin desire to make icons out of humans. Evita is the quintessential rage-filled femme whose ambition still provokes the world, and at least her native Argentina. Her dying wish was to never be forgotten and in the years since she perished in 1952, it has been fulfilled over and over again while her embalmed body rests in peace in the Recoletta cemetary of Buenos Aires.
Wonderful, mysterious & true events of dead Evita.......2005-03-08
I was lucky to read this novel while traveling in Argentina. I like strange & mysterious stuff, so I found the events surrounding the corpse of Evita Peron to be magnetic. Truth is stranger than fiction! A great book that everybody should read whether or not they care a fig about Evita - just to open up minds to the wonders of reality. And, yes, Martinez does drag on at times.
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For some, Evita was a goddess, a queen, and a patron mother; for others she was a social climber, and a crazy and ordinary analphabet; her body is the protagonist of this novel. This book tells the impressive and absurd story of the peregrinations of Evita's perfectly embalmed corpse across oceans and in and out of Peronists' hands. A superb craftsman, Mr. Martinez moves through stories of Evita's life and death ―and the peregrinations of her body― with a dazzling array of literary devices, including imagined interviews and memoirs, even fake screenplays.... he affirms his place among Latin America's best writers. ―The New York Times Book Review Description in Spanish: "Diosa, reina, madre, benefactora, rbitro de la moda y modelo nacional de comportamiento. Santa Evita para unos y para otros una analfabeta resentida, trepadora, loca y ordinaria, presidenta de una dictadura de mendigos. El protagonista de esta novela es el cuerpo de Eva Duarte de Pern, una belleza en vida y una hermosa etrea despus del trabajo del embalsamador espaol Pedro Ara. Un cuerpo del que se hicieron varias copias y que, en su enloquecedor viaje por el mundo durante veintiseis aos, trastorna a cuantos se le acercan y se confunde con un pueblo a la deriva que no ha perdido la esperanza de su regreso."
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on January 2, 1997. The length of the article is 352 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Santa Evita.(TT: Saint Evita)
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Dear Reader,
In my "Brides" trilogy, three unconventional young women vow they will never marry--only to be overtaken by destiny.
The Accidental Bride could only be the story of Phoebe, the "awkward" one....
For four years, Cato, the Marquis of Granville, had been just another man--the uninteresting, somewhat intimidating husband of Phoebe's older sister. But then her sister died, and Phoebe seemed a reasonable substitute. Her forced engagement to him should have been quite a cold-blooded arrangement...except that one day Phoebe looked at Granville--really looked at him--and saw what she'd never seen before: he was darkly, breathtakingly attractive.
Once she'd noticed, she couldn't seem to stop noticing, and suddenly Phoebe was disastrously in love. It would be nothing short of torture to be married to Granville, knowing he didn't love her and never would. After all, Phoebe was not the kind of woman men fell in love with--Phoebe with her untidy hair, her rumpled clothes, and her fingers forever ink-stained from the poetry she wrote.
When running away does not solve her problems, Phoebe decides to try something a little different--something that involves a little change in wardrobe, a daring new attitude, and a bit of brazen seduction.
Granville is about to discover that his awkward Phoebe is woman enough even for him....
Warmest wishes,
Jane Feather
P.S. Be sure to watch for Olivia's story,
The Least Likely Bride, coming in hardcover in early 2000.
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Here, age did matter........2006-07-16
I wanted to like this book because Phoebe was not the physically perfect woman as is the case in so many romance novels. But the age difference really got in the way. Other reviewers say that Phoebe was 17 (and Cato was 37 and she was his fourth wife!!) but very far into the book Cato says she is 19 (probably just over 18 according to the dates given). Almost as if the author has realized that there is a problem and tries rather half heartedly to fix it. Why didn't Ms. Feather just start all three girls off a little older? Just a few years would have made a big difference. She could have even left Olivia at her original age and not caused any problems for Portia or Phoebe. As it was, I was very uncomfortable with Phoebe and Olivia being such close friends when one was the daughter and one the wife of the same man. And please, could Ms Feather not have at least given names to the two poor girls Cato produced with Diana? If that information was there then I missed it because it must have been given only once.
I very quickly lost patience with Phoebe always looking like a rag bag, always having rats nest hair, always having dirt on her face, always being defiant, always, always, always. As another reviewer said, why couldn't she get a little back bone and stop her relentless pursuit of Cato. Did she only feel humiliation for mere seconds? Any normal woman wouldn't have spoken to him (or allowed him to touch her) for a week.
Cato did change. But, wow, did he ever inflict verbal punishment every chance he had. It took so long for his attitude to change toward Phoebe that I had almost given up hope. And then he changed completely. Almost too much too late. At least for me.
I would not recommend this book to a friend. If you decide to read it, you will do so with lots of information given through the review system and know what you are letting yourself in for. I will NOT be reading the other two books!!!
Probably the best of the three!.......2006-03-28
I read the three books in about a span of two weeks, all in order (this one being book two). This one was the best of the bunch.
I think Phoebe is an easy character to relate to. She doesn't have the perfect body, elegant grace, or ability to come up with smart dialogue. She's average. My difficulties with Phoebe are that she constantly throwing herself (physically and emotionally) at Cato and he continually dismisses her. He enjoys the sex they have, but doesn't seem to see her for much more, until the near end of the book. I think I would have much preferred a little more cat and mouse. After Phoebe's failed attempts to earn her husband's respect, I would have hoped she would had a little pride and backed off. I would have liked to have seen Cato try as hard as Phoebe to make the relationship work.
Cato is my favorite hero of the three books. He is honest and all around good. He is very detached, but has possibilities to become something greater, if given the right motivation. I don't feel that this character was developed enough to really see why in the end he decided to love Phoebe. It didn't look into the depths of his realization enough -- just on the surface, and it seemed shallow at best.
This book, I would consider, is an average read. Nothing great, but good enough if you are bored and can't find anything else better. It has moments that will make you smile, but it just needed a little more emotional connection.
No desire to read the others in the trilogy.......2006-01-02
This book was...typical. Phoebe always lived in the shadow of her older sister, Diana, who was beautiful, graceful, refined and everything that Phoebe isn't.
Then, Diana dies and Phoebe is made to marry Cato, Diana's widower. This whole situation is weird because Phoebe is seventeen years old and bestfriends with Cato's daughter.
But, apparently, no one in the book found the marriage all that strange.
Cato, though, is uptight, rigid and completely by-the-book. Understandably, he's more than a little put out to suddenly be saddled with a wife like Phoebe who's unkempt, clumsy and not well-versed in the social graces--in short, she does what she wants, when she wants.
For some reason, free-spirited Phoebe is in love with stuffy Cato and decides to make him fall in love with her, too--so she starts by making love to him when he'd been seeing their bedsport as simply an obligation to secure an heir (because he thought women, and Phoebe, were bred not to enjoy sex).
Througout the book, Phoebe angers Cato at every turn but he starts to fall for her anyway...mostly during the sex scenes, really.
And, even while it was nice to see Cato loosen up a bit (while family intrigue threatened to destroy Cato and the marriage), I don't know why or how this relationship works.
I guess it's study in opposites attracting, but in reality, it really only works because Feather makes it.
Brilliant Book.......2003-03-03
This was the first book I ever read by Jane Feather and it hooked me from the word go. I loved watching the relationship between the strong-willed Cato and the always ragged Phoebe grow as the story progressed. It was great seeing Phoebe try to shake free of the stereotypical mold of a what a wife should be, and try to make her marriage to Cato an equal partnership.
I enjoyed seeing Phoebe deciding that she wanted a proper marriage to Cato, with all the intimacies that included, and so the love scenes were brilliant.
Poor Cato didn't quite know how to take the fact that Phoebe was supposedly barren, and some of the little conversations he has with himself about it are rather funny.
I would reccommend this book to any romance reader, or anyone wanting to venture into the world of romance.
Not what I expected............2002-11-14
"The Accidental Bride" is a book that had fantastic potential, but I'm sorry to say it didnt quite live up to it. I absolutely loved the character of Phoebe..she was someone that I would love to have as a friend. I enjoyed Cato as well, however, I found myself wanting to shake him due to his sometimes maddening unresponsiveness. This book could have easily earned 4 stars from me, but I felt that there needed to be more emphasis on their relationship and not so much on the surrounding storyline...I also found it somewhat disturbing that Cato was Olivia's father....that would make Phoebe her stepmother... Anyways...not a bad book, but I wouldnt necessarily recommend it.
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With just one month to go before her fairy tale wedding to the third richest man in the second largest city in Ohio, Lily Blair is suddenly beset by doubts.Even though she appears to have it all - a budding career and a five-carat engagement ring from the man of her dreams - she can't decide whether to plunge headfirst into the security of married suburban life, or follow her career dreams solo to New York. And while the zany and loving cast of friends, family, and co-workers keep pushing her towards the aisle, Lily knows that, despite the passion she feels for her fianc, she alone must come to terms with the biggest decision of her life.As she locks horns with her mother on nearly every detail, issues like veal medallions vs. chicken wings become battles in an event being staged with all the grandeur and precision of a full-scale military operation. The situation grows funnier and more desperate at every turn as Lily must confront an absurd bridal fair, an unsympathetic psychiatrist, and the local gossip column. Before she loses her sanity, she looks to her heroine, Jane Austen, for inspiration.The result is hilarious, sweet, and smart. For Lily Blair is a real heroine for the 90s and beyond, and The Accidental Bride who will keep surprising you until the end.AUTHORBIO: Janice Harayda is an award-winning journalist who spent eleven years as the book editor of a major metropolitan daily newspaper.She has been a staff writer and editor for Glamour, editorial director of Boston magazine, and a contributor to many national magazines and newspapers.A vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle, she lives in New Jersey.The Accidental Bride is her first novel.
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Self-important, snobbish, condescending, and silly.......2007-03-27
I just finished this book yesterday and I was happy to be done with it. I have never disliked a book enough to actually come onto amazon.com and write a scathing review of it, but this one inspired me. The only reason I finished it was to see if the main character was suddenly going to do something worthy of my attention, like grow up and appreciate her groom.
All the characters are flat and fit neatly into two categories: the "good guys" and the "bad guys". The "bad guys" are all "rednecks"; sports-obsessed, war-loving, anti-gay rights, corn-dog eating Republicans who all have horribly snotty children. The "good guys" are portrayed as enlightened, socially aware, psychology-hating, liberal-thinkers who raise unrealistically well-behaved children and think that Manhattan is the only cultured place on earth. What the "good guys" really come across as are self-absorbed, overly politically correct snobs who see phallic symbols at every turn. (I think the phallic symbol references are supposed to be funny.)
With all the Jane Austen quotes and references, I gather that the writer was trying to make a satirical commentary on our times as Austen did on hers. But Harayda misses the two things that make Austen so likable and powerful a writer: the "good guys" have human flaws that make us like them, relate to them, and feel empathetic towards them and the "bad guys" are either comical or pathetic, making us either laugh or feel sympathy. This book did none of these things. It insulted, belittled, and condescended at every turn. By the end, I was cringing when I saw Austen's quotes at the top of each chapter. It was a complete insult to her.
Lily, the main character, is a spoiled, snobbish, self-absorbed brat who pouts instead of opening her mouth and sharing her feelings with her fiancé. She is spineless and allows her parents and Mark (the fiancé) to dictate her life. She is also strangely obsessed with corn dogs. She doesn't want to get married and hasn't told Mark that she loves him, yet she accepts his proposal. She hates her mother, the house Mark's father bought them, his sisters, the town they live in, her boss, and her job and yet she does nothing pro-active about changing or coming to terms with any of this - she just whines and pouts and compares everyone to obscure literary characters. She views herself as a powerless victim and everyone else as merciless oppressors. I felt like I was reading about a spoiled 16-year-old.
Mark is a flat, boring, too-good-to-be-true character but even with that, he is way too good for self-absorbed Lily. He proposes to her before she has even said "I love you" and wants to marry her instead of living with her first. I kept wanting him to leave Lily and maybe teach her something.
Alas, there is no major transformation of the main character. She doesn't learn any lessons or come to terms with her own character flaws - Oh, wait. I forgot; she doesn't have any. Instead, everyone suddenly realizes that she was right all along and she gets her way in everything. And everyone admires her for it.
No wonder I found this book at the Borders outlet instead of the proper store.
As it happens, Cleveland does suck.......2007-03-11
Please ignore the poor reviews. They obviously come from the "troglodytes" of Cleveland. Look it up, Clevelanders.
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Not terrible, but not terrific.......2005-04-04
I got seriously sick of the Jane Austen, as well as the author's self-congratulatory literary comments throughout the book -- I felt like the author was trying to show off a degree in Literature to the Unwashed. The ending was incredibly stupid -- not at all what I expected, and utterly disappointing. The reason for 3 stars and not 1 star was because it wasn't completely awful -- I did like to see how Jerry Springer-esque her views of her in-laws and family could get.
An Accident if you decide to read............2004-09-28
Most likely this is the first and Last book Janice Harayda will write. The Accidental Bride, Harayda's first is nothing but an accident.
Lily is a 20 something is about to get married, to one of Ohio's richest, but pulls out only to find herself making matters worse for herself. Sounds good. Yet it is not.
Harayda never gives us a description of the main character, let alone any other character in the book. Its hard to read a book where the mental image you have in your head is a paper doll. Every character is so flawed that you can not get past that fact alone. No character is likeable. Hands down. How can you like a lead character that forces herself to get married to a man who loves her, only to fake loving him to get a divorce after the wedding. Talk about low.
Then there are the facts and the non-stop Jane Austen bits. Lily our main character lives in Ohio, only to make it sound like hell. Hello!!! I live in the Ohio Valley, and we do not have crime rates that are bigger than NYC's, a climate where it snows in September (without a nor easter), we are not rich and live in look alike communities (our economy is not the best right now), and no we are not soooo out of style that we make Trailor Park Trash look like Naomi Campbell.
Jane Austen!?? You will never pick up one of her novels if you read this book, for the author dwells on Jane the whole book that she forgets what matters...the plot of her own book.
I would like to say that you could give the book a chance, but heck dont waste your time. I would have given it one star had I not had enough will to finish the thing.
Skip this read and pick up a Jane Green novel...or even one of Austens' great novels.
A humorous book that made me think.......2004-04-07
I really enjoyed this book and in fact was on this Amazon page hoping to see if there are more books by this author. The book is not Jane Austen and is not meant to be. However it is an witty look at contemporary mores involving courtship, love, romance, and marriage. It made me think about my own choices and my expectations of others. And it made me laugh! And also vow never to visit Ohio....
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