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Carlos Rubio's work can also be found in several anthologies. Some were published in English and some in Spanish.
The titles are as follows: 20 Cuentistas Cubanos; Cuban American Writers: MFLR Review; Narrativa y Libertad; Distinct Voices and Motu Proprio.
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BULLWHIP, second in a trilogy of satirical novels (The Neophyte/Bullwhip/California Fever)focuses on the protagonist's senior year of high school.
His "I don't care attitude" soon sets in motion a series of events where he must overcome simultaneously a number of challenges: a gang led by tough Ramrod; the sexual advances of Ms. Hilda, the school's vice principal; and the brutal treatment at the hands of Linwood Lovelace, the local sheriff.
It is through the guidance of Uri-Nhal, the high school custodian (in reality a Buddhist priest) that Bullwhip turns over a new leaf and begins to get control of his life.
Everything comes to a head during a tent revival led by Reverend Anal Roberts. Ramrod, Ms. Hilda, Sheriff Lovelace are all there, looking to even the score with Bullwhip. In a stunning reversal, all accounts are settled and, once again, Bullwhip comes out on top.
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DEAD TIME -- A novel about love and loneliness. In the opening chapter the main character realizes that on that day he will kill a man. After carrying out this seemingly wanton act of violence, we learn of his life, his love for his dead wife and the dehumanizing process of losing one's freedom.
(Coming 2003 from Gival Press. See News page.)
| |  | | Forgotten Objects
The novel describes the life of Anna d'Amio from Mussolini's Italy to Pittsburgh in the 1960's.
FORGOTTEN OBJECTS traces the life of Anna d’Amio, daughter of opera singers Louis and Francesca d’Amio, from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during the mid sixties.
The novel proper is made up of three parts: Italy, Cuba and United States. Married at seventeen and widowed at twenty, Anna leaves war-torn Italy to find her fortune in Cuba, where she eventually meets Ramón Contreras, a wealthy tobacco grower who later becomes her second husband. The idyllic world that the couple had so laboriously built suddenly comes crashing down after the communist take over of the islan | |  | | Orpheus' Blues
ORPHEUS' BLUES is a novel of self-discovery. We first meet Jack Stewart on the way back to his apartment in New York City, where he is pursuing a career as a jazz musician.
As the novel unfolds, we learn of the difficulties he encounters, of the friendship he develops with George, his roommate--also a jazz musician--and the women he meets in the city. But more importantly, we learn of the very close relationship he has with his mother, who writes to him regularly from southern Virginia. Through these letters and a series of flashbacks, we come to understand Jack's background, the | |  | | Quadrivium
A neobaroque novel that immerses the reader in a bedazzling and surrealistic vortex where a search for an idealized goal often turns into a mirage. The four female protagonists, Li-Tzu, Candy Slice, Dhalia Meanor and Adela Carroza anxiously await the arrival of Mr. Ioso, the Greek who will fulfill their dreams. It is during this anxious wait that they recount the story of their turbulent lives which are often distorted by desire, ambition and revenge. (Winner of the "II Premio Internacional de Novela Nuevo Leon 1989.")
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A broken air conditioner, warm beer, demented firemen and a mysterious letter. These are the starting points of SAGA, a novel in which the reader is swept into an obsessive search for a woman. Her ever-changing form leads the protagonist into a surrealistic labyrinth of desire, and eventually into a hallucinating succession of images, where reality fades to become yet another distortion of itself. (SAGA was a finalist in the 1993 Letras de Oro Literary Contest.)
| |  | | The Neophyte
The Neophyte, first of a trilogy of satirical novels, traces the early years of the main character, from the moment he floats in a locked trunk -- after a flood -- onto the confines of the Convent of the Righteous Path. Sheltered by the nuns and Father Gideon, we watch his struggles with his endocrine demons and the secret desires that accost him.
Eventually expelled from the convent, he meets with SinSemilla, a former flower child who runs an auto-repair shop. It is through him that The Neophyte finally begins to realize his potential as a mechanic and as a man. He comes out of his shell.
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Dear Margaret,
by Pamela Ackerson
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 Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned. |
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