Dorfman has written essays that include "How to Read Donald Duck" (coll. He has taught at the Universidad de Chile, the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Amsterdam. (Publisher Provided) Ariel Dorfman, Dorfman is a Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies and has a Licenciatura in Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 1965. A professor at Duke University, Dorfman lives in Durham, North Carolina. With his son, Rodrigo, he received an award for best television drama in Britain for "Prisoners of Time" in 1996. He has won various international awards, including two Kennedy Center Theatre Awards. Besides poetry, essays and novels-"Hard Rain" (Readers International, 1990), winner of the Sudamericana Award "Widows" (Pluto Press, 1983) "The Last Song of Manuel Sendero" (Viking, 1987) "Mascara" (Viking, 1988) "Konfidenz" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995)-he has written plays, including "Death and the Maiden", and produced in ninety countries. Since writing his legendary essay, "How to Read Donald Duck", Dorfman has built up an impressive body of work that has translated into more than thirty languages. A supporter of Salvador Allende, he was forced into exile and has lived in the United States for many years. Ages 12-up.Born in Buenos Aires in 1942, Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean citizen. Still, his derring-do on a bike will entice some readers, and the portrait of New York just before September 11 will draw others. Heller's kindness to strangers would be more credible if he didn't treat his grandparents, with whom he lives while his parents are on an unspecified do-gooder mission, with such disdain, and his voice often sounds too wise. The plot paints New York City as a very small town where the same few characters turn up everywhere and just when Heller needs them, but the father-son Dorfmans (both playwrights) do evoke the city's ethnic richness. To that end, he employs many don't-try-this-at-home moves that will thrill teen readers-hitching himself to a moving car, tilting sideways under a truck parked in his path, hurtling over a construction site.
His two-wheeled dreams extend to entering the Tour de France, hoping to become its youngest champion ever. Heller is a sad sack himself, pining for Silvia, a waitress whose eyes "made (him) want to crawl inside her soul." He's an outcast at work-the lone cyclist on a rollerblading staff.
Heller Highland, 16, works at "Soft Tidings," an unlikely Manhattan company that delivers "news with a personal touch." Uncommon empathy makes him the firm's choice to deliver the worst news-a capsized boat off the Albanian coast had your wife and children aboard, a son has died in a Chinese re-education camp, a sweetheart in Istanbul has married another.
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