Eminent Maricones: Arenas Lorca Puig and Me (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

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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 Garca Lorca. Manrique celebrates the lives of these heroic writers who were made outcasts for both their homosexuality and their politics. "Manriques 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 "A splendid memoir of Manuel Puig. It evokes himhow he really wasbetter than anything Ive read."Susan Sontag "Where Manriques tale differs from others is in its unabashed and sensitive treatment of sexuality. One reads his autobiographical account with pleasure and fascination."Jose Quiroga George Washington University "Manriques voice is wise brave and wholly original. This chronicle of self-discovery and literary encounters is heartening and deep."Kennedy Fraser "In this charmingly indiscreet memoir Jaime Manrique writes with his customary humor and warm sympathy engaging our delighted interest on every page. He has the rare gift of invoking and inviting intimacy in this case a triangulated intimacy between himself his readers and his memories. These are rich double portraits."Phillip Lopate