- Gebundene Ausgabe: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: William Morrow (28. Juni 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060742925
- ISBN-13: 978-0060742928
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,6 x 15,7 x 2,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 588.075 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Everything is exciting in Argentina! The climate! The people! The dancing! Once readers get past the immature use of exclamation marks, they will find an interesting memoir of a thirtysomething woman disenchanted with her high-powered advertising-executive job who yearns to indulge her true passion--the tango. In a cheeky exchange with her conservative father, the author wheedles enough money to live on in Buenos Aires for her "education" in the art of the tango. There follows a parade of possible dance partners and lovers, some dashing, others dullards, but all well versed in the sexy dance. Readers should not expect to learn very much about the dance and its history, the shock of uprooting from one culture to another, or how a novice becomes an accomplished dancer. The writing is unpolished. But readers who wonder what it's like to give up a lucrative career to follow their bliss will enjoy the breathless tone and the author's unaffected appreciation for her new life experiences. Kaite Mediatore
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“A delicious real–life read…This ballsy babe’s memoir will totally inspire you.” (Cosmopolitan )
“Sultry, sexy and smoldering with desire. Are you ready to Kiss & Tango?” (Sue Margolis, author of Original Cyn )
“Kiss & Tango takes us inside the world of the tango, evidencing how following your passion can lead to happiness.” (Mireille Guiliano, New York Times bestselling author of French Women Don't Get Fat )
“The wonderful cover…a retro b&w photo oozing restrained eroticism, is sure to catch a browser’s eye.” (Kirkus Reviews )
“Desperate for dancing…consider Marina Palmer’s memoir Kiss and Tango.” (Summer recommended reading) (Houston Chronicle )
“Everything is exciting in Argentina!…Enjoy the breathless tone and the author’s unaffected appreciation for her new life experiences.” (Booklist )
“Read First Rate Trash: Blaze Through Your Beach Reading/The Perfect Potboiler for Every Literary Taste” SUMMER ISSUE Roundup (New York magazine )
“HBO has shelved SexandtheCity, Desperate Housewives is in reruns…So Kiss & Tango…seems ideally poised to fill a gap in the zeitgeist.” (Washington Post Book World )
“The itinerary: a primer on the world’s sultriest dance and a sensual guide to one of Latin America’s lustiest cities.” (USA Today )
“This story about looking for love takes you to exotic Buenos Aires without having to use your frequent-flier miles.” (Knoxville News-Sentinel )
“Written with such steamy candor, it’s destined to raise temperatures…an inspiring story of a woman who dared to want more.” (Pages Magazine )
“Wicked, dangerous and divine. Beware: Kiss & Tango is like a siren’s song. It lures you in. . . . ” (USA Today )
“Palmer’s effervesence is so contagious that a reader feels she has actually lived the life. Armchair tango. Now that’s escape.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review )
“A sizzler in diary form. This is, undoubtedly, one of the best beach books of the summer.” (Washington Times )
“Kiss and Tango lives up to the promise of its sexy title (and book jacket)…It’s too much fun.” (New Orleans Times-Picayune )
“Kiss & Tango is delightful, and so is its author.” (Associated Press )
“Marina Palmer…may inspire readers to hop the first plane south.” (Francine Prose, People )
“Smoldering…brutally honest and often hilarious…this love story could steam up the big screen.” (Newsweek )
“A sexy cross between Bridget Jones and Stella’s groove, with fishnet stockings and a Spanish accent.” (Washington Post )
“Sultry, sexy and smoldering with desire. Are you ready to Kiss & Tango?” (Sue Margolis, author of Original Cyn )
“Kiss & Tango takes us inside the world of the tango, evidencing how following your passion can lead to happiness.” (Mireille Guiliano, New York Times bestselling author of French Women Don't Get Fat )
“The wonderful cover…a retro b&w photo oozing restrained eroticism, is sure to catch a browser’s eye.” (Kirkus Reviews )
“Desperate for dancing…consider Marina Palmer’s memoir Kiss and Tango.” (Summer recommended reading) (Houston Chronicle )
“Everything is exciting in Argentina!…Enjoy the breathless tone and the author’s unaffected appreciation for her new life experiences.” (Booklist )
“Read First Rate Trash: Blaze Through Your Beach Reading/The Perfect Potboiler for Every Literary Taste” SUMMER ISSUE Roundup (New York magazine )
“HBO has shelved SexandtheCity, Desperate Housewives is in reruns…So Kiss & Tango…seems ideally poised to fill a gap in the zeitgeist.” (Washington Post Book World )
“The itinerary: a primer on the world’s sultriest dance and a sensual guide to one of Latin America’s lustiest cities.” (USA Today )
“This story about looking for love takes you to exotic Buenos Aires without having to use your frequent-flier miles.” (Knoxville News-Sentinel )
“Written with such steamy candor, it’s destined to raise temperatures…an inspiring story of a woman who dared to want more.” (Pages Magazine )
“Wicked, dangerous and divine. Beware: Kiss & Tango is like a siren’s song. It lures you in. . . . ” (USA Today )
“Palmer’s effervesence is so contagious that a reader feels she has actually lived the life. Armchair tango. Now that’s escape.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review )
“A sizzler in diary form. This is, undoubtedly, one of the best beach books of the summer.” (Washington Times )
“Kiss and Tango lives up to the promise of its sexy title (and book jacket)…It’s too much fun.” (New Orleans Times-Picayune )
“Kiss & Tango is delightful, and so is its author.” (Associated Press )
“Marina Palmer…may inspire readers to hop the first plane south.” (Francine Prose, People )
“Smoldering…brutally honest and often hilarious…this love story could steam up the big screen.” (Newsweek )
“A sexy cross between Bridget Jones and Stella’s groove, with fishnet stockings and a Spanish accent.” (Washington Post )
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17 von 18 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Make no mistake, Ms. Palmer demonstrates NO authority on the subject.
3. Februar 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
After a long period of reservation about whether I wanted to write an unkind review for something, or give a product more attention than it deserved, I couldn't restrain myself any longer after seeing the author on a television program speaking as if she was a representative of the dance and of the scene in Buenos Aires. This bothered me terribly because, as evidenced by this book, she is nothing but a wide eyed, patronizing, privileged tourist. It's bad enough that she is a terrible writer--her descriptions are riddled with cliches (more than once she describes a crowded dance floor as being packed "like a can of sardines") and her explanations of tango terms and customs for non-aficionados are awkwardly shoehorned into the narrative--thereby belying the "diary" format--or briefly used to introduce sections as a heavy handed thematic primer. As for her "authority," it is essentially reduced to name dropping of people and places which are more legitimately established in the tango scene. Okay, up to this point it's just a bad book, no big deal. What really gets me is her utter narcissism and exploitation of the culture and tradition that define this great city. Of course, the premise of the book is of a dissatisfied woman in New York who rushes off to BsA to find romance and adventure, but the hope (for the reader) is that somewhere along the way, she will shed her exoticism of the culture and come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of it and be able to convey that to us. Unfortunately, that never happens. Throughout the book the narrator remains steadfastly self-indulgent. For example, near the end she describes the lockdown of the banks and the forced conversion of pesos, which threw the country into chaos and dropped the majority into poverty. Yet her primary concern was that she would be unable to do her street performance. Such callous disregard illuminates two things very clearly. First, she is a very unlikeable narrator. Secondly, she is NO porteña. I cannot give a lower recommendation.
14 von 15 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Disappointing and shallow
10. Februar 2006
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I was so looking forward to this as I had just returned from my own solo vacation to Argentina and I thought this book would be a fun read and reminder of my trip. What a disappointment. Marina Palmer claims to have passion for the tango, but she only tells and not shows us this. She comes off as being a spoiled, narcissistic spoiled girl of 19, not a woman in her 30s. Her cliche-ridden prose merely describes her sexual conquests and illustrates her utter inability to form both friendships and relationships of substance. Argentina and tango have been done a real injustice by this shallow memoir.
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Sex and the Spoiled-Little-Rich Girl
11. September 2005
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Sorry to bring a little reality to the heavy-breathing enthusiasm, but I had hoped this book would be a little bit about tango.
Instead it's the tale of a spoiled thirty-year-old (!) "girl" who talks her wealthy family into supporting her whim of becoming a professional tango dancer in Buenos Aires. Along the way to the realization two years later that it will never happen, she seduces and sleeps with every Argentine male she can get her hands on, even the delivery boy.
Without previous dance training (she worked in advertising in New York), she had a fantasy of dancing on stage, and at the same time, of finding her "Other Half of the Orange" who also is a Tango God.
Set up comfortably in a luxury apartment and spending her parents' $2,000 U.S. per month on tango classes, shoes and cafes con leche, she brings man after man to her bed, and sometimes two at a time, and doesn't spare us the details.
The book only gets interesting at the end when the Economic Crisis hits Argentina in 2001, but running from the turmoil, Marina quickly escapes to her relatives' elegant country ranch far from the disquieting events in the city. And then, giving up the dream, she returns to the States.
The writing is full of cliches, the lovers are indistinguishable, the women invariably turn out to be "bitches."
So I'm still waiting for someone to write about Argentine Tango in Buenos Aires. Slutty sex is everywhere.
Instead it's the tale of a spoiled thirty-year-old (!) "girl" who talks her wealthy family into supporting her whim of becoming a professional tango dancer in Buenos Aires. Along the way to the realization two years later that it will never happen, she seduces and sleeps with every Argentine male she can get her hands on, even the delivery boy.
Without previous dance training (she worked in advertising in New York), she had a fantasy of dancing on stage, and at the same time, of finding her "Other Half of the Orange" who also is a Tango God.
Set up comfortably in a luxury apartment and spending her parents' $2,000 U.S. per month on tango classes, shoes and cafes con leche, she brings man after man to her bed, and sometimes two at a time, and doesn't spare us the details.
The book only gets interesting at the end when the Economic Crisis hits Argentina in 2001, but running from the turmoil, Marina quickly escapes to her relatives' elegant country ranch far from the disquieting events in the city. And then, giving up the dream, she returns to the States.
The writing is full of cliches, the lovers are indistinguishable, the women invariably turn out to be "bitches."
So I'm still waiting for someone to write about Argentine Tango in Buenos Aires. Slutty sex is everywhere.
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