Description: An irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world. A rogues' gallery of labor union leaders, cultists, lesbians, murderers, ne'er-do-wells, prostitutes, and visitors to a disconcertingly erotic telephone booth accompany the picara as she pushes the limits established in patriarchal postdictatorship Argentina. With lyric prose, Alicia Borinsky creates a hypnotic kaleidoscope of voices--a tantalizing and illuminating mix of the pop culture, politics, sexuality, tango, and cinema of an enigmatic society that celebrates its own demise.
Review Quotes: "No one else writing today can quite emulate her cartoon prose, a shot-gun marriage of comic and camp, the Borgesian and the Barthesian. Her eponymous heroine moves picaresquely from Momma Poppa family to a telephone booth of a hock -shop, the epitome of 'down-town glitter' from London to New York offering every kind of fix, including here black tulips sprouting not surely in homage to A. Dumas." --Peter Bush, Director, British Center for Literary Translation