Face
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
When a Brazilian man's face is disfigured, he attempts a grisly self-surgery in this novel of survival.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nominated for a 1985 American Book Award, this first novel centers on a Brazilian man whose face is horribly disfigured in an accident. Helio Cara loses his job, his mistress, his friends, and then seeks to create a new visage through a grisly form of self-surgery. PW called Pineda's theme of identity "compelling.''