Narcisa

By Jonathan Shaw

Subjects: Man-woman relationships, fiction, Rio de janeiro (brazil), fiction, Self-destructive behavior, Addicts, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Fiction, romance, general, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: 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.