Holy Place Author:Carlos Fuentes "Perhaps Fuentes' most controlled stylistic achievement, Holy Place is, in Leonard Michaels' opinion, ' . . . a dazzling salad of traditional and contemporary mytha . . . a virtuoso performance in paradox.' This novel is indeed a stunning combination of the cosmopolitan present and the mythological past, the t... more »wo extended metaphors in the work being Circe and the cinema--the goddess who turns men into swine and the medium that turns reality into celluloid." -- from back cover.« less