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Article: Evita! (reprinted from 'Santa Evita,' September 1996)
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- September 1, 1996
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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When Eva Peron, wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron, died of cancer in 1952 at the age of thirty-three, she became a legend, a woman who has inspired both the public's imagination and an ongoing list of contemporary works, from the 1979 musical Evita, to the much-discussed, much-anticipated feature film starring Madonna, which will be released this winter, This month, writer Tomas Eloy Martinez comes out with Santa Evita (Knopf), a fictionalized account of her life. In researching his novel, excerpted here, Martinez interviewed people who knew her, and sifted through masses of archived documents, newspaper reports, and film footage. Here, Martinez imagines a scene in which ...
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Article: EVITA, IN BODY AND SPIRIT, WAXES LIGHT ...
The Virginian Pilot;
December 15, 1996 ;
700+ words
...Byline: PIERCE TYLER SANTA EVITA TOMAS ELOY MARTINEZ TRANSLATED ... wonderful new absurdist comedy, Santa Evita, by Tomas Eloy Martinez. Though ... one of the pleasures in reading Santa Evita. The blurring of fact and fiction ...
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