Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, And Me (Living Out, Gay And Lesbian Autobiographies)
SKU: SONG0299161803
ISBN : 9780299161804
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Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me (Living Out, Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)
Amazon.com ReviewJaime 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 Kiss of the Spider Woman), who, despite his "drag queen mannerisms" was "one of the most tough-minded people I've ever met." After a short chapter portraying an encounter with Reinaldo Arenas two days before Arenas, his body ravaged by the effects of HIV, committed suicide, Manrique launches an in-depth consideration of the shifts in attitude toward homosexuality in the writings of Federico Garc
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