Bedside Manners
2006
First Published
3.63
Average Rating
102
Number of Pages
An unnamed woman finds herself immobilized in her room at a country club as democracy returns to her Latin American country and a right-wing army major plots a coup outside her window
Avg Rating
3.63
Number of Ratings
83
5 STARS
23%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
25%
2 STARS
12%
1 STARS
4%
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Author
Luisa Valenzuela
Author · 12 books
Luisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina. Works such as Como en la guerra (1977), Cambio de armas (1982) and Cola de lagartija (1983) combine a powerful critique of dictatorship with an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and the power structures which inhere in human sexuality and gender relationships.
