Gustavo Perez Firmat, Author, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-385-47296-8
Like other members of the ``one-and-a-half'' generation--Cuban exiles who came to the U.S. as children--the author sees the Christmas Eve toast ``Next year in Cuba'' as a ``magical, monotonous mantra'' pulling at his divided loyalties. Now a...
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Gustavo Perez Firmat, Author, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Author Anchor Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47297-5
Poet and professor Firmat explores his identity as a Cuban American whose family was exiled from their native land in the wake of Castro's revolution. (Sept.)
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Gustavo Perez Firmat, Author, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Author Editorial Colibri $14.95 (206p) ISBN 978-84-923550-7-5
Whether he is writing poetry (Carolina Cuban), novels (Anything but Love), or scholarly studies like this 1994 work, Columbia University professor P rez Firmat explores the same theme: living in two cultures at once.
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Gustavo Perez Firmat, Author, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Author University of Texas Press $15.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-292-76551-1
From Desi Arnaz, arguably still the most famous Cuban to hit U.S. shores, to current pop star Gloria Estefan, Cuban Americans have had to balance life within two cultures, one representing their past, one their present and future. While...
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