The Halfway House

The Halfway House
- Used Book in Good Condition
â€œThis 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 illâ€¦ Itâ€™s a frightening, nihilistic cousin of One Flew Over the Cuckooâ€™s Nest.â€â€•Publishers Weekly
Never before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in Miami where, in a shaken mental state, the writer William Figueras lives after his exile from Cuba. He claims to have gone crazy after the Cuban government judged his first novel â€œmorose, pornographic, and also irreverent, because it dealt harshly with the Communist Party,â€ and prohibited its publication. By the time he arrives in Miami twenty years later, he is a â€œtoothless, skinny, frightened guy who had to be admitted to a psychiatric ward that very dayâ€ instead of the ready-for-success exile his relatives expected to welcome and receive among them. Placed in a halfway house, with its trapped bestial inhabitants and abusive overseers, he enters a hell. Romance appears in the form of Frances, a mentally fragile woman and an angel, with whom he tries to escape in this apocalyptic classic of Cuban literature.

â€œBehind the hardly one hundred pages,â€ Canarias Diario stated, â€œis the work of a tireless fabulist, a writer who delights in language, extracting verbs and adjectives which are powerful enough to stop the reader in his tracks.â€
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811218023
ReleaseDate 2009-05-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811218023

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780811218023
ReleaseDate	2009-05-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811218023

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