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Before Night Falls: A Memoir

Before Night Falls: A Memoir

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Before Night Falls: A Memoir

by Reinaldo Arenas

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0140157654
ISBN 13
9780140157659
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Penguin Books, October 1994. Paperback. Used - Very Good.

Synopsis

The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books --sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels.

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Friends Book Store US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
213234
Title
Before Night Falls: A Memoir
Author
Reinaldo Arenas
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
0140157654
ISBN 13
9780140157659
Publisher
Penguin Books
Place of Publication
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
Date Published
October 1994
Pages
317

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