About this title: After moving to Argentina on a whim, Brian Winter, a young American reporter, embarks on a crusade to learn that devilishly difficult dance that demands both discipline and passion: the tango. While he dances the night away in the milongas with the fiery denizens of Buenos Aires, the country around them collapses, gripped by inflation, street ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. With CD! Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Public Affairs
Date Published: 2008-03-03
ISBN-13:9781586483708ISBN:1586483706
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781586483708ISBN:1586483706
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781586483708ISBN:1586483706
Description: New. In a book that is part travelogue, part history, a young American reporter moves to Argentina and struggles to learn the tango. He discovers that the tango, with its tales of jealousy, melodrama, and lost glory, may hold the secret to the country tha... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780434016112ISBN:043401611X
Description: New. Explores Argentina through its obsession with the dance. This book tells of winter's adventures in the sexy, over-caffeinated late-night world of Buenos Aires' tango halls. It features characters like El Tigre, a merchant marine turned tango professor... read more
"Part travel memoir, part history. The book was clumsily structured, cliché-ridden, and the character development was slim to none. Many of the historical portions felt like they were copied directly from research snippets.
I kept hoping for a morsel of interesting text and only found it at the very end of the book when he discussed in greater detail the fallout from the 2001 financial crisis (thus one more star). Otherwise, the book was a big disappointment and really not worth my time."
"I fell in love with this book last year...but now that I´ve lived in Argentina for a semester I can say that it still has a long way to go in trying to capture everything that makes up the Argentine spirit. Still an interesting read, but of course not the same as experiencing the real thing."
"Part memoir, part travelogue, part history of the tango, part history of Argentina, reads like an (unrequited) love story with a country, a woman and a dance: beautiful!"
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