| #2422207 in Books | 2002-01-04 | 2001-12-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.39 | File type: PDF | 128 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Life-Changing|By Isaias Fanlo Gonzalez|I can't say this about many books, and I'm more than happy to say it about this one: Jaime Manrique's 'Eminent Maricones' is one of those books that comes with you in your life journey once you've read it. This brilliant "autobiography of sorts", as he describes it, is as much a memoir of several crucial episodes in his life, as a tribute|.com |Jaime Manrique's slim Eminent Maricones starts off with some disjunctive memories of his childhood in Colombia, but truly begins to pick up steam when Manrique recounts his friendship with fellow writer Manuel Puig (best known as the author of K
Jaime Manrique weaves into his own memoir the lives of three important 20th-century Hispanic writers: the Argentine Manuel Puig, the author of Kiss of the Spider Woman; the Cuban Reinaldo Arenas, author of Before Night Falls; and Spanish poet and playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) | Jaime Manrique. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.