All Yours
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Praise for Claudia Piñeiro's Thursday Night Widows:
"An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society.”—José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
“A gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentina’s class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie.”—The Times Literary Supplement
“A fine morality tale which explores the dark places societies enter when they place material comfort before social justice, and security before morality.”—Publishers Weekly
Ines is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernesto’s briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words “All Yours” and signed, “Your true love.”
She follows him to a park on a rainy winter evening and witnesses a violent quarrel he has with another woman. The woman collapses; Ernesto sinks her body in a nearby lake. When Ernesto becomes a suspect in the case she provides him with an alibi. After all, hatred can bring people together as urgently as love. But Ernesto cannot bring his sexual adventures to an end, so Ines concocts a plan for revenge from which there is no return.
Claudia Piñeiro, formerly a journalist and playwright, is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into six languages. All Yours follows on the success of Thursday Night Widows, published in 2010 in the United States.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
At the start of this nicely mordant novel of revenge set in 1998 Buenos Aires from Argentinian author Pineiro (Thursday Night Widows), Ernesto Pereyra tells his wife, Ines, one night that he must go take care of an office emergency. Having just found a suggestive love note in his briefcase, Ines secretly follows him, not to his office, but to an isolated wooded area, where Ernesto meets his secretary, Alicia. From a distance, Ines witnesses their encounter, which turns violent. Alicia falls and hits her head against a tree with fatal results. Ines returns home undetected, convinced that Ernesto still loves her. She's prepared to go to any lengths to conceal her husband's role in Alicia's death, until she discovers his extramarital escapades are more complicated than she thought. Pineiro artfully telegraphs the plot's direction by interjecting sections detailing evidence later used against someone in a criminal prosecution. Noir fans will appreciate the final twist. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Publishers Weekly Reviews
At the start of this nicely mordant novel of revenge set in 1998 Buenos Aires from Argentinian author Piñeiro (Thursday Night Widows), Ernesto Pereyra tells his wife, Inés, one night that he must go take care of an office emergency. Having just found a suggestive love note in his briefcase, Inés secretly follows him, not to his office, but to an isolated wooded area, where Ernesto meets his secretary, Alicia. From a distance, Inés witnesses their encounter, which turns violent. Alicia falls and hits her head against a tree with fatal results. Inés returns home undetected, convinced that Ernesto still loves her. She's prepared to go to any lengths to conceal her husband's role in Alicia's death, until she discovers his extramarital escapades are more complicated than she thought. Piñeiro artfully telegraphs the plot's direction by interjecting sections detailing evidence later used against someone in a criminal prosecution. Noir fans will appreciate the final twist. (Jan.)
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Citations
Piñeiro, C., & France, M. (2011). All Yours . Bitter Lemon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Piñeiro, Claudia and Miranda France. 2011. All Yours. Bitter Lemon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Piñeiro, Claudia and Miranda France. All Yours Bitter Lemon Press, 2011.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Piñeiro, C. and France, M. (2011). All yours. Bitter Lemon Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Piñeiro, Claudia, and Miranda France. All Yours Bitter Lemon Press, 2011.
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