Singing From the Well
Language: English
Published by Viking, 1987
Series: Book 1 of 5 - Pentagonia
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Washburn Books, Pateley Bridge, United KingdomWashburn Books
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London: Viking, 1987. Book. Good. Quarter Bound Dark Blue Cloth. First English Translation. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Novel first published in 1967, the first of a five-book sequence by the Cuban writer. English translation by Andrew Hurley. 206pp. Bound in dark blue cloth over pink paper covered boards. Silver lettering to spine, pink endpapers. Slight bumping to spine and lower corners, mark to top board and small blemish to fore edges, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has some edge and surface wear, otherwise good.
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- Title
- Singing From the Well
- Author
- Reinaldo Arenas
- Publisher
- Viking
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- y Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670808059
- ISBN 13
- 9780670808052
- Edition
- y First English Translation.
- Series
- Book 1 of 5: Pentagonia
- Seller catalogs
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The first novel in Reinaldo Arenas's "secret history of Cuba," a quintet he called the Pentagonia, Singing from the Well is by turns explosively crude and breathtakingly lyrical. In the end, it is a stunning depiction of a childhood besieged by horror--and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.
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His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his treasured crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills surrounding his home, another reality exists, a place where his mother wears flowers in her hair, and his cousin Celestino, a poet who inscribes verse on the trunks of trees, understands his visions.
The first novel in Reinaldo Arenas's "secret history of Cuba", a quintet he called the Pentagonia, Singing from the Well is by turns explosively crude and breathtakingly lyrical. In the end, it is a stunning depiction of childhood besieged by horro -- and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.
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