Penguin Books, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Penguin Books, 1994. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Translated from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch. Now a Major Motion Picture directed by Julian Schnabel. Gently used book, pages toned and the first few pages have a crease in the upper corner near the spine head. Otherwise clean and unmarked with solid and tight binding. This memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is a book about being free. He recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York, four decades later. In between he tells of fighting for the Revolution, his suppression as a writer, his imprisonment and torture, and his eventual flight from Cuba. 8vo. 317 pages. 1994, Penguin Books.

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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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Bookseller: The Parnassus BookShop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 030111
Title: Before Night Falls: A Memoir
Author: Arenas, Reinaldo
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0140157654
ISBN 13: 9780140157659
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
Date Published: 1994
Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
Keywords: ARENAS, REINALDO, 1943-1990; AUTHORS, CUBAN, BIOGRAPHY;
X weight: 0 oz

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