Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Lownds. Carroll & Graf $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1499-5
Gutiérrez's first book published in the U.S., Dirty Havana Trilogy
, was a series of loosely connected vignettes chronicling the rough and tumble lives of Cuban down-and-outs buoyed by cheap rum, marijuana, petty crime and insatiable...
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Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Author, Natasha Wimmer, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-14016-8
The streetwise gutsiness of Bukowski and Miller pervades Cuban poet Guti rrez's raunchy, symbolic, semi-autobiographical debut novel of life in 1990s Havana. Although the title suggests a triptych, the work more closely resembles a mosaic of short...
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Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Author, John King, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by John King. Carroll & Graf $13.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1665-4
Cuban writer Gutiérrez has mined and loosely fictionalized his own life in creating Pedro Juan, a Havana writer, in two previous collections of linked vignettes, Dirty Havana Trilogy
(2000) and Tropical Animal
(2003). This book offers more...
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