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...remarks, "Humberto had no talent for simplicity. He felt the need to twist normal things around." In fact the old man is simmering away in wild daydreams, and he is not the only one. Most of the characters are obsessed by the legend of blessed Iné, a child saint of witchlike proclivities who is said to have rescued the retreat house from an earthquake long ago and stayed around to haunt the place ever since...
...irony of Argentine political life. It evokes, says Eisendrath, an image "despairingly similar to the landscapes of supercharged atrocity by Hieronymus Bosch. In the foreground a man accused of seducing a teen-age girl while he was President of the country has just re-entered it as a saint. Perón is flanked on one side by his third wife, Isabelita, 42, once a nightclub performer in Panama. On the other side of el Lider is Lopecito-Jose Lopez Rega-a former army corporal who was elevated to Minister of Social Welfare because of his skill in reading...
...background, Eisendrath adds, is the mummified corpse of Evita, "the radio announcer who became successively the saint's mistress, his political manager, second wife and, finally, in death, his greatest spiritual asset. The compelling allure of the corpse, which is reportedly being transported to Argentina, is reflected by numerous posters of the dead woman. 'Evita returns,' they proclaim, 'dead or alive!' " In the days ahead, Perón may need all the help he can get. Unless he can move quickly to end the violence, his government's resolve to restore stability in Argentina...
...author of a previous religious novel, The Carpenter Years (and non-fiction books on Martin Buber and The Natural and the Supernatural Jew), Arthur Cohen knows all the odds, creative and commercial. Yet he has taken on a saint and a fable in fiction, and won -apparently by sheer moral passion...
...West Side and communicates with her husband only by telephone ($100 a month). On Thursdays she wings back to Cleveland. Her husband picks her up at the airport and drives her to their suburban home in Cleveland Heights, to their 18-year-old adopted son and their Saint Bernard...