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      Loves That Bind
      by Julian Rios, Edith Grossman (Translator)


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      Product Details

        a.. Paperback: 243 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.59 x 8.01 x
5.16
        b.. Publisher: Vintage Books; (May 1999)
        c.. ISBN: 0375700609

        d.. Other Editions: Hardcover
        e.. Average Customer Review:  Based on 2 reviews. Write a review.

        f.. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 468,164



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      Editorial Reviews
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      Literary love letters or love letters to literature? Each of the 26
missives in Julián Ríos's Loves That Bind stands for one love affair, one
letter of the alphabet, one famous literary heroine. As the narrator Emil
moons around London mourning the disappearance of his latest lady friend, he
embarks on a most unusual way of getting her back: an alphabetical catalogue
of his past passions, all of whom look oddly familiar. Witness this homage
to a fellow linguistic magician: "Lo! Lovely! No, how terrible: she has
returned. The living image. In her majorette or is it minorette pink
miniskirt, closing and opening-closing-opening her knees." Or this
irreverent reworking of one of the most famous passages in 20th-century
literature: "...she roundly refused to rehearse the original scene of the
chamber pot when she spoke in streams, the streams of gold of Erin, that
coursing current, and had to say in her Irish accent L'odore, L'eau d'or, je
suis ravie, content in the shower of gold, the waters of Lahore pouring now,
those of the Orinoco rushing now, go to hell! And she said no I won't No."
Translator Edith Grossman reproduces the quicksilver turnings of
R&iacoute;os's prose with wondrous skill--no small task, given his
predilection for wordplay and puns. There's a fine line between the
pleasures of seduction and the pleasures of language, and Ríos straddles it
with infectious delight. Part satire, part inspired postmodern pastiche,
Loves That Bind woos the reader with both sensuality and wit. --Mary
Park --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.

      The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani
      Unfortunately, Ríos does not deliver on the enormous potential of his
idea. Though Loves That Bind has moments of real cleverness and sleight of
hand, it is largely a paint-by-numbers performance, lacking the sort of
sustained literary ardor that might have turned it from an experimental
curiosity into a tour de force. --This text refers to an out of print or
unavailable edition of this title.

----- Original Message -----
From: "arthur seeley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Query???


> Does anyone know the poem that begins ' How do the waters come down at
> Lahore?' who wrote it? and where might I find it? Thanks. Arthur