Betrayed Rita Hayworth Author:Manuel Puig In his "dazzling and wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review), Manual Puig presents "an affecting comic novel" (Newsweek) about a small town in the bleakest Argentine flatlands where, to mask the boredom and hopelessness of life, people respond to experiences with gestures and strategies taken over from Hollywood films of the thirties... more » and forties. A cool young stud plots how he would handle Rita Hayworth so she would not betay him as the she betrayed Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand. A young girl plays a balcony scene in her mind that is as wistful as Norma Shearer's. A child dreams of rescuing Shirly Temple form her latest captors. And every day in the celluloid world of these characters, the line between fantasy and reality grows thinner and thinner.« less