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 The Reader's Companion to Cuba
edited by Alan RyanFrom the Reader's Companion series. The Reader's Companion offers nearly two dozen captivating eyewitness "reports" from visitor's to Cuba's shores, among them Anais Nin's introduction to the "Fairyland" of Havana, Langston Hughes's surprising rumba party, an excursioin around town with Fidel behind the wheel, and Tommy Lasorda's baseball interview with pistol presiding. From Arnold Samuelson's intimate portrait of Hemingway to Frank Ragano's recollections of the Mafia in Havana, The Reader's Companion provides an infinitely more revealing and personal time-lapse "tour" of this complex country than could possibly be offered by any standard guidebook. - Table of Contents:
- Richard Dana Jr, Havana, 1859
- Anthony Trollope, Havana 1859
- John Muir, Havana 1868
- Frederic Remington, Havana 1899
- Anais Nin, Havana 1922
- Langston Hughes, Havana Nights & Cuban Color Lines 1893
- Arnold Samuelson, Havana & beyond; Summer with Hemingway 1934
- Thomas Merton, Havana & beyond; Blinded by the Light 1940
- Patrick Leigh Fermor, Havana, late 1940's; Carnival
- Norman Lewis, Havana and the Finca Vigia 1957; visiting Hemingway and one-fourth of James Bond
- Graham Greene, Havana and Santiago de Cuba 1957
- Frank Ragano & Selwyn Raab, Havana, 1958: Out on the town with the mob
- Tommy Lasorda, Havana, 1950-1959: Baseball, Batista, & the Bearded Ones
- Amiri Baraka, Train to Oriente, July 26, 1960
- Frank Makiewicz & Kirby Jones, Havana 1974: Around town with Fidel
- Hugh O'Shaughnessy, Train Number One, Havana to Santiago & Guantanamo Bay 1980
- Martha Gelhorn, Havana & the Finca Vigia 1985
- Graeme Gibson, Santiago & beyond 1987
- Carlo Gebler, At the beach, Santa Maria and Varadero, 1987
- Mark Kurlansky, Havana 1990's: the babalawo and the birds
- Tom Miller, Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus, & the Bay of Pigs 1990
- Pico Iyer, Holguin, Santiago, Havana, and the beach, 1987-1992
 416 pages - 5" x 8" - (2/97)
DA3678 The Reader's Companion to Cuba $17.00
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