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An audacious biography of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro s own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro s inner circle during some the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late 1990s, as the regime began sending its oldest comrades to the firing squad, he became A Man Who Knew Too Much. Escaping a death sentence and now living in exile, Fuentes has written a brilliant, satirical, and utterly captivating autobiography of the Cuban leader in Fidel s own arrogant and seductive language discussing everything from Castro s early sexual experiences in Biran to his true feelings about Che Guevara and his philosophy on murder, legacy, and state secrets. Critics have long admired Fuentes s writing; one U.S. article called him Norman Mailer s Cuban pen pal. Akin to Gertrude Stein s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, or Edmund Morris s Dutch, this wickedly entertaining, true-to-life masterpiece is as imaginative and outsized as Castro himself."
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Fuentes, Norberto
- ISBN: 9780393339031
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.19 x 1.08
- Number Of Pages: 594
- Publication Year: 2010
Language:
English