The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales
This posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill... It's a frightening, nihilistic cousin of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.-Publishers Weekly
Perfect for the pool and beyond-- Joy Tipping - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Confronting an impassive world, Guillermo Rosales has left us this painful, violent, and lyrical testament. -- Le Figaro
The characters in the halfway house are tragically beautiful and unforgettable. -- Susan Salter Reynolds - Los Angeles Times
It seems almost impossible to find so much cruelty in barely one hundred pages; but it's just that behind these terrible and moving one hundred pages there are thousands of pages, millions of sentences, that reveal an entirely destroyed universe. Indispensable. -- Revista Leer
The real brilliance is...its portrait of a man...reduced to the very cruelty he had tried to avoid. -- Jascha Hoffman - The National
This book is a shot of light through the darkness of human misery. -- Jeff Waxman - Three Percent
A masterful kick-in-the-teeth...savagely beautiful. -- Bill Marx - The World, Public Radio International
Hope inevitably implodes into disappointment, and love...curdles with the possibility of destruction. -- Abigail Deutsch - The Literary Review
We are fortunate to have this award-winning book finally available to English-speaking readers. Very powerful and gripping. -- Bessy Reyna - Multicultural Review
With The Halfway House, Rosales joins the pantheon of the very best Cuban writers, Jose Lezama Lima, Pinera, and Reinald Arenas. -- Thomas McGonigle - Review of Contemporary Fiction
Confronting an impassive world, Guillermo Rosales has left us this painful, violent, and lyrical testament. -- Le Figaro
The characters in the halfway house are tragically beautiful and unforgettable. -- Susan Salter Reynolds - Los Angeles Times
It seems almost impossible to find so much cruelty in barely one hundred pages; but it's just that behind these terrible and moving one hundred pages there are thousands of pages, millions of sentences, that reveal an entirely destroyed universe. Indispensable. -- Revista Leer
The real brilliance is...its portrait of a man...reduced to the very cruelty he had tried to avoid. -- Jascha Hoffman - The National
This book is a shot of light through the darkness of human misery. -- Jeff Waxman - Three Percent
A masterful kick-in-the-teeth...savagely beautiful. -- Bill Marx - The World, Public Radio International
Hope inevitably implodes into disappointment, and love...curdles with the possibility of destruction. -- Abigail Deutsch - The Literary Review
We are fortunate to have this award-winning book finally available to English-speaking readers. Very powerful and gripping. -- Bessy Reyna - Multicultural Review
With The Halfway House, Rosales joins the pantheon of the very best Cuban writers, Jose Lezama Lima, Pinera, and Reinald Arenas. -- Thomas McGonigle - Review of Contemporary Fiction
Guillermo Rosales (b. Cuba 1946 – d. Miami, 1993) grew up in revolutionary Cuba where his father served in Cuba’s diplomatic corps. He became a journalist and then a promising novelist. Yet, his work was denounced as “morose, pornographic,and irreverent” by the Communist Party, which led to his first nervous breakdown. Forced to leave the country for Miami, he suffered from schizophrenia, was in and out of psychiatric wards, then tragically, after destroying most of his unpublished manuscripts, shot himself at age 47. Anna Kushner was born in Philadelphia and first traveled to Cuba in 1999. Beside her “commanding translation” (Words Without Borders) of The Halfway House (ND, 2009), her writing and translations have appeared in numerous other print and web publications.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811218023 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811218023 |
| Title | The Halfway House |
| Author | Guillermo Rosales |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2009-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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