The autobiography of Fidel Castro
"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 revoluti...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
c2010.
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| Summary: | "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 Birán 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."--From publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | "This is an abridged version of a two-volume edition originally published in Spanish as La autobiografía de Fidel Castro"--T.p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 572 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780393068993 (hardcover) 0393068994 (hardcover) 0393339033 (pbk.) 9780393339031 (pbk.) |
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