Book 2015
Narcisa
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- Publisher
- Infinitum Nihil/Harper Perennial
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Self-destructive behavior
- Man-woman relationships
- Addicts
- Fiction
- Fiction, romance, general
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Rio de janeiro (brazil), fiction
- New york (n.y.), fiction
In the wild backwaters of Rio de Janerio and New York, motorcycle-riding, nomadic outlaw poet Ignacio Valencia Lobos--known as Cigano--attempts in vain to curb the unhinged habits of his lover, Narcisa, a crack-smoking philosopher prostitute. Though he knows they will destroy each other, Narcisa is an exquisite poison he cannot resist. As they navigate the chaos of her downward spiral-dragged deeper by the gravity of drugs, burglaries, and violence, Cigano recounts a love affair doomed by insanity, dysfunction, and vice.