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008			092909t19881987nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9780140094442
050	1	0	_aPQ7390.A72 _bC413 1988
082	0	0	_aLAS FIC ARE
100	1		_aArenas, Reinaldo _d, 1943-1990
240	1	0	_aCelestino antes del alba _l. English
245	1	0	_aSinging from the well _c/ Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley
260			_aNew York, N.Y., U.S.A. _b: Penguin Books _c, 1988, c1987.
300			_a206 p. _c; 20 cm.
490	0		_aA King Penguin
500			_aTranslation of: Celestino antes del alba.
520			_aHis mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills surrounding his home, another reality exists, a place where his mother wears flowers in her hair, and his cousin Celestino, a poet who inscribes verse on the trunks of trees, understands his visions.The first novel in Reinaldo Arenas's "secret history of Cuba," a quintet he called the Pentagonia, Singing from the Well is by turns explosively crude and breathtakingly lyrical. In the end, it is a stunning depiction of a childhood besieged by horror--and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.
650		4	_aGay authors
650		4	_aGay writings, Latin America
651			_aCuba _v--Fiction
700	1		_aHurley, Andrew
942			_cMO
999			_c242169 _d242169