His Only Son: With Dona Berta

by Leopoldo Alas

The unlikely hero of His Only Son , Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation--and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity--who dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly into a love affair with Serafina, a seductive second-rate opera singer, encouraged by her manager who mistakes Bonifacio for a potential patron. Meanwhile, Bonifacio's wife experiences a parallel awakening...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681370182
• ISBN13: 9781681370187
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"