The Buenos Aires Affair Author:Manuel Puig Hailed by The New York Times as ?an Argentinian tour de force.? Manuel Puig?s masterful and ironic ?detective novel? concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens?Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth?all combining to make a powerful portr... more »ait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe D?Onofrio, a lonely 35-year-old sculptor, tormented by her fantasies and perpetually in search of the ideal lover; and Leo Druscovich, an outwardly confident and successful art critic, deeply troubled by a terrible guilt that surfaces in his repeated sexual failures. Taking on, exchanging, and growing into the roles of victim and criminal, their lives presented through a variety of different kinds of ?evidence??lists, scribbled notes, transcripts, one-sided interrogations?these two lost souls gradually find themselves entirely dependent on one another . . . and heading towards precisely the sort of violent ending a detective novel demands. .« less