The Halfway House - Softcover

Rosales, Guillermo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811218023 ISBN 13: 9780811218023

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2009

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Book by Rosales Guillermo

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Perfect for the pool and beyond.--Joy Tipping

Confronting an impassive world, Guillermo Rosales has left us this painful, violent, and lyrical testament.

This book is a shot of light through the darkness of human misery.--Jeff Waxman

The characters in the halfway house are tragically beautiful and unforgettable.--Susan Salter Reynolds

We are fortunate to have this award-winning book finally available to English-speaking readers. Very powerful and gripping.--Bessy Reyna

It seems almost impossible to find so much cruelty in barely one hundred pages; but it's just that behind these terrible and moving one hundred pages there are thousands of pages, millions of sentences, that reveal an entirely destroyed universe. Indispensable.

The real brilliance is...its portrait of a man...reduced to the very cruelty he had tried to avoid.--Jascha Hoffman

A masterful kick-in-the-teeth...savagely beautiful.--Bill Marx

Hope inevitably implodes into disappointment, and love...curdles with the possibility of destruction.--Abigail Deutsch

Reseña del editor:

Never before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in Miami where, in a shaken mental state, the writer William Figueras lives after his exile from Cuba. He claims to have gone crazy after the Cuban government judged his first novel "morose, pornographic, and also irreverent, because it dealt harshly with the Communist Party," and prohibited its publication. By the time he arrives in Miami twenty years later, he is a "toothless, skinny, frightened guy who had to be admitted to a psychiatric ward that very day" instead of the ready-for-success exile his relatives expected to welcome and receive among them. Placed in a halfway house, with its trapped bestial inhabitants and abusive overseers, he enters a hell. Romance appears in the form of Frances, a mentally fragile woman and an angel, with whom he tries to escape in this apocalyptic classic of Cuban literature.

"Behind the hardly one hundred pages," Canarias Diario stated, "is the work of a tireless fabulist, a writer who delights in language, extracting verbs and adjectives which are powerful enough to stop the reader in his tracks."

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0811218023
• ISBN 13: 9780811218023
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 121