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Synopsis
Set in contemporary Miami, this is a portrait of a Cuban community. The characters include Cuban exiles, hustlers, wheeler-dealers, cynics, dreamers and drug barons. Running through the whole book are a central group of characters plotting the restoration of right-wing capitalism to Cuba.
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If the U.S. were to boast one great independent film director, he would be John Sayles, a cult figure among his admirers. Nominated for both an Academy Award for scriptwriting and a National Book Award, Sayles has written screenplays, teleplays, short stories, and novels and has worked as a script doctor for a virtual who's who of Hollywood film and television talent.
From Library Journal
In the early 1980s, Marta de la Pena, a beautiful, otherworldly Cuban exile living in Miami, dreams of avenging the death of her brother Ambrosio, who was killed in the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion 20 years earlier. Spurned by the mainstream anti-Castro groups in town, Marta sets out to assemble her own guerrilla strike force from Miami's large population of gun-toting idealists, madmen, and soldiers of fortune. Sayles, a noted film director ( Eight Men Out ) as well as a critically acclaimed novelist ( Union Dues , LJ 9/1/77), brings a cinematic eye to historical fiction. Focusing on the vicissitudes of Marta's extended family in both Havana and Miami, he reviews 50 years of Cuban-American relations. An exciting, instructive, and highly readable novel. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/91.
- Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles
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- PublisherPenguin Putnam~trade
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0140156658
- ISBN 13 9780140156652
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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