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| Title | : | The Halfway House |
| Author | : | Guillermo Rosales |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | May 27th 2009 by New Directions (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels |
Guillermo Rosales
Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 3.88 | 856 Users | 117 Reviews
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Never before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in Miami where, in a shaken mental state, the writer William Figueras lives after his exile from Cuba. He claims to have gone crazy after the Cuban government judged his first novel “morose, pornographic, and also irreverent, because it dealt harshly with the Communist Party,” and prohibited its publication. By the time he arrives in Miami twenty years later, he is a “toothless, skinny, frightened guy who had to be admitted to a psychiatric ward that very day” instead of the ready-for-success exile his relatives expected to welcome and receive among them. Placed in a halfway house, with its trapped bestial inhabitants and abusive overseers, he enters a hell. Romance appears in the form of Frances, a mentally fragile woman and an angel, with whom he tries to escape in this apocalyptic classic of Cuban literature.“Behind the hardly one hundred pages,” Canarias Diario stated, “is the work of a tireless fabulist, a writer who delights in language, extracting verbs and adjectives which are powerful enough to stop the reader in his tracks.”
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| Original Title: | La casa de los náufragos |
| ISBN: | 0811218023 (ISBN13: 9780811218023) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 856 Users | 117 ReviewsWeigh Up Containing Books The Halfway House
This is another book about a man in a psychiatric home, written by a schizophrenic author, although unlike All Dogs Are Blue, there is no humour. It is bleak, showing the very worst of human nature - the people who run the home have a lot of power, and take advantage of the vulnerable residents, stealing from them, sexually abusing them, beating them, and neglecting their basic needs. The story is from the perspective of William, a new resident to the home. His aunt has sent him there becausehope spot: the novel. i just feel really sad right now.EDIT.this was bleak. i still think about it sometimes.
The Halfway House was sad. It tells the story of a Cuban refugee who has come to Miami to live with his family and to have a better life. However, he gets caught in a downward spiral when his family in Miami feels they are unable to help him. He is strange and cannot adjust to his new life. He is then sent to the Halfway House where he is stuck with a cast of mentally ill characters. His moral compass fails him as he sinks to low levels of behavior typical of the house. He feels that it is not
A vivid, realistic look at a young Cuban exile's life, differing markedly from the traditionally well-off image of other Cuban exiles, who fled Castro to the freedom of Miami. William Figueras however seems to have traded one tyranny for another, and his bourgeois relatives want nothing to do with the emaciated former Communist and teacher, whose father had been a lawyer. His constant reading of literature and his kindled hope for a future belie the dirty, substandard boarding house, whose
A short novel about unpleasant people, squalid circumstances, and dreams. William is a young man aged beyond his years by disappointment and poverty, by mental illness and mistreatment. A refugee from Cuban 'culture, literature, television, sporting events, history and philosophy', he is also an exile of the revolutionary dream, that remains the defining blow in the lives of so many of the Miami Cuban community. His arrival at this 'halfway house' comes after his own extended family has tired of
William Figueras is a man who dreams. He dreams of his home in Cuba, of Fidel Castro, of the living and the dead, and of most unspeakable violence.He also dreams of leaving the Halfway House, of marrying, of having a life free from disembodied voices and spirits.William Figueras indulges himself with the words of English poets, long since dead; the likes of William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, and Lord Byron. He also reads the work of Ernest Hemingway, dead from suicide at the age of 61.Author
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