Title: WRITES OF PASSAGE Short Story Collection Hardback Book (Guillermo Cabrera Infante - 1st UK Edition - 1993)
Publisher: FABER AND FABER
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0571169562
ISBN 13: 9780571169566
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Good
Dimensions: 14.61 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 1.91 centimeters depth
Weight: 295 grams

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Begins with the no-savvy monologue by a six-year-old, little girl and ends with the naive confession of an eight-year-old boy. In between a madam of a fashionable bordello tells all about her most precious possession - a baroque pearl before a swinish clientele.

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First published in the author's native Cuba in 1960, this collection of 15 early short pieces reflects the exuberance and self-assuredness of a writer just beginning to come into his own. Other than the clumsy attempt at stream-of-consciousness writing, ``Gobegger Foriu Tostay,'' these stories are beautifully constructed and still fresh. The best explore the sensuality of life in pre-Castro Cuba and the tension and mysteriousness of young love. ``Sea, Sea, Enemy Sea'' deals with the hypnotic attraction between a woman and her lover, a former circus performer, thief and entrepreneur. Infante beautifully contrasts the wild and wind-tossed sea with the emotions of the woman as she waits for her lover to return. ``The Doors Open at Three'' and ``Grammar's for the Birds'' explore the heights and disappointments of young lovers' first erotic explorations. The highly sophisticated ``Nest, Door, Neighbours'' describes a brief encounter between a man whose marriage is beginning to sour and a sadistic, sexually tormented American teenager who lives in the apartment next door decorated in ``American Atrocious,'' a style irreducibly different from the narrator's own ``Cuban Kitsch.'' In a chilling autobiographical epilogue, the prolific novelist, essayist and screenwriter describes his arrest and brief imprisonment for publishing a story in a journal deemed seditious. ``None, for sure, went to jail for imitating Hemingway. I did.''

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