Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls - 2001 InsightOut QPB Triangle Gay Classics

Description: "Before Night Falls: A Memoir," autobiography by Reinaldo Arenas, first published in 1993 three years after the author's death, 2001 QPB/InsightOut Triangle Classics, 317pp. Very good condition, light edge wear, single dog-eared page 27, perhaps as far as read. Otherwise looks unread. "The astonishing 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 suppression 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." From the Gay fiction/nonfiction personal library of an Emeritus Professor of English at a local liberal arts college, in climate controlled storage for the past decade or so. (275+ volumes yet to list.) In very good to like new condition. Fourteen photos above so please view using magnify function for more info and to assess & confirm condition.

Price: 15 USD

Location: Richland, Mississippi

End Time: 2024-09-30T14:59:36.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD