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Title: Singing from the Well by Reinaldo Arenas ISBN: 0-14-009444-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: my honest opinion
Comment: I could not put this book down ...even though sometimes I thought I would throw up..incredibly honest and very descriptive, I actually fell in love with Reinaldo, if he were alive today I would give anything to meet him..even though I am female , I think he would like me , and our love of the ocean would bind us together!!!oops this review is meant for before night falls
Rating: 4
Summary: A Mother's Love
Comment: The first novel of Arenas's "Pentagonia" ... beautiful, poignant, and at times downright frustrating. Reality and fantasy seamlessly interweave in this depiction of a boy's childhood in pre-Castro Cuba. I am having a difficult time putting into words my experience with this novel. Arenas's prose is gorgeous, poetic in its lyricism, crossing into a style that reads like a fusion between Walt Whitman and James Joyce, reminiscent of the latter particularly in the novel's final section, a mad and hallucinatory set piece that takes place during Christmas and is written completely as dialogue. There is much abuse - both physical and psychological - to be endured in these pages, yet through it all Arenas maintains a strangely uplifting tone. His descriptions of nature are stunning in their simplicity and detail, as is the relationship between the young narrator and his mother that provides the through-line around which the action of the novel centers.
By its end, the reader is left moved and exhilarated, yet painfully aware that life for this boy and his mother really isn't going to get much better ... and, if we are to read the narrator as Reinaldo Arenas himself, in fact, will get much much worse.
I was frequently reminded of Julian Schnabel's film of Arenas's memoir "Before Night Falls", particularly of the early childhood scenes at the beginning of the film. If you haven't seen it, it serves as an excellent introduction to the life of this amazing artist. If you have seen it, the film stands to be viewed again.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful novel, exceptionally told.
Comment: As a student of literature I have read my fair share of books. So far, this is my favorite. It is incredibly emotional and I found myself completely attached to the narrator. I have not read the rest of the books in Arena's collection, what he calls the Pentagonia, but now I plan to do so. Read this book! It is worth your time.
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Title: Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, Dolores M. Koch ISBN: 0140157654 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba by Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley ISBN: 0140066365 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Palace of the White Skunks by Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley ISBN: 0140097929 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Color of Summer: Or the New Garden of Earthly Delights by Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley ISBN: 0140157190 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Hallucinations: Or, the Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando by Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley, Thomas Colchie ISBN: 0142000191 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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