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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.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Reinaldo Arenas
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Viking, Serpent's Tail, TusQuets
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780670840786
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First sentence
“"It's going to be a great nuisance for both of us," said Freddy.”
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