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Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)
Eminent Maricones Arenas Lorca Puig and Me - Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies Author:Jaime Manrique Jaime Manrique weaves into his own memoir the lives of three important twentieth-century Hispanic writers: the Argentine Manuel Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman; the Cuban Reinaldo Arenas, author of Before Night Falls; and Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. "Manrique brings to [these] stories a novelis... more »t's eye for telling detail and a poet's gift for metaphor and condensation. . . . His double vision yields insights into Puig, Arenas, and Lorca unavailable to a writer less attuned to the complex interplay of culture and sexuality, as well as that of race and class in Latino and Anglo societies."George DeStefano, The Nation « less