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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780060006891
- EAN
- 9780060006891
- Book Title
- Dirty Havana Trilogy : a Novel in Stories
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Hispanic & Latino, General
- Item Weight
- 12.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060006897
ISBN-13
9780060006891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2144636
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dirty Havana Trilogy : a Novel in Stories
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Hispanic & Latino, General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.5 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-040807
Reviews
"In the tradition of other ribald, earthy, urban authors like Blaise Cendrars, Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller, Gutierrez is an exuberant writer...[Dirty Havana Trilogy] is not only entertaining; it's also curiously uplifting as it illuminates the darker places of a society on the brink." -- New York Times Book Review "As a tale of human ingenuity and hidden hopefulness overcoming near-insuperable odds...Dirty Havana Trilogy is a good bad book." -- The Guardian "Dirty Havana Trilogy is a courageous book from someone who still lives on the island, a singular chronicle of the "dirty" reality of today's Cuban society. Gutierrez's prose exudes the rage and indignation of a native, and reading him is a memorable experience for those who don't shy away from a little suffering with their literature." -- Miami Herald "Every now and then you come across a writer, like Kerouac, Miller, Bukowski, who sets you on fire, who inspires you (and this is not a bad thing) to drink, fornicate, go mad--to seek solace any way you can. Pedro Juan Gutierrez is such a writer. He puts his soul and his city--one and the same?--on the line for all to see. And his city, Havana, is a place of beauty and torment--a glorious, lewd, moveable orgy." -- Jonathan Ames "Readers weary of the pieties of Borges can welcome this gutsy, outrageous Cuban novel which may awaken moribund Spanish fiction to the new millennium." -- James Purdy, In the tradition of other ribald, earthy, urban authors like Blaise Cendrars, Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller, Gutierrez is an exuberant writer...[Dirty Havana Trilogy] is not only entertaining; it's also curiously uplifting as it illuminates the darker places of a society on the brink.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
863/.64
Synopsis
"A lewd, impious and brilliant novel of contemporary Cuba. In the brutality of his honesty, Mr. Gutierrez reminds one of Jean Genet and Charles Bukowski." --New York Times Dirty Havana Trilogy chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living hand to mouth in and around Cuba, half disgusted and half fascinated by the depths to which he has sunk. Collecting garbage, peddling marijuana or black-market produce, clearing undesirables off the streets, whoring himself, begging, sacrificing to the santos, Pedro Juan scrapes by under the shadow of hunger--all the while surviving through the escapist pursuit of sex. Pedro Juan's unsentimental, mocking, yet sympathetic eye captures a shocking underbelly of today's Cuba. Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish speaking world, Gutierrez's picaresque novel is a fierce, loving tribute to Havana and the defiant, desperate way of life that flourishes amid its decay., Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, this picaresque novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former Cuban journalist living from hand to mouth in the squalor of contemporary Havana, half disgusted and half fascinated by the depths to which he has sunk. Like the lives of so many of his neighbors in the crumbling, once-elegant apartment houses that line Havana's waterfront, Pedro Juan's days and nights have been reduced by the so-called special times -- the harsh recession that followed the Soviet Union's collapse -- to the struggle of surviving the daily grit through the escapist pursuit of sex. Pedro Juan scrapes by under the shadow of hunger -- all the while observing his lovers and friends, strangers on the street, and their suffering with an unsentimental, mocking, yet sympathetic eye., "A lewd, impious and brilliant novel of contemporary Cuba. In the brutality of his honesty, Mr. Gutierrez reminds one of Jean Genet and Charles Bukowski." -- New York Times Dirty Havana Trilogy chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living hand to mouth in and around Cuba, half disgusted and half fascinated by the depths to which he has sunk. Collecting garbage, peddling marijuana or black-market produce, clearing undesirables off the streets, whoring himself, begging, sacrificing to the santos, Pedro Juan scrapes by under the shadow of hunger--all the while surviving through the escapist pursuit of sex. Pedro Juan's unsentimental, mocking, yet sympathetic eye captures a shocking underbelly of today's Cuba. Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish speaking world, Gutierrez's picaresque novel is a fierce, loving tribute to Havana and the defiant, desperate way of life that flourishes amid its decay.
LC Classification Number
PQ7390.G83T7513 2002
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