Ay, Cuba!
Subtitle: a socio-erotic journey
By: Andrei Codrescu ; photographs by David Graham.
Contributors: Graham, David, 1952-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- -- Travel -- Cuba; Cuba -- Description and travel; Cuba -- Social life and customs -- 1959-
Description: During a Historic visit to Cuba - on the eve of Pope John Paul ll's own trip - National Public Radio's Andrei Codrescu and photographer David Graham turned an unsparing but compassionate gaze upon Cuba.

Registering the architecture, the bizarre two-tier economy of peso and dollar, the revivals of both Catholicism and the Afro-Cuban religion of santeria, and the sexual and social mores of a post-cold war communist society, Codrescu's words and Graham's photographs offer a vision of Cuba's brutally stark and sometimes-tragic reality, as seen through the fascinating prism of Codrescu's own eccentric genius.

Through interviews with Cuban architects, writers, hustlers, prostitutes, and common working folk, Ay, Cuba! reveals a passionate society deeply in conflict with itself. This is not a cold, cross-sectioned study of Cuba, but rather a highly personal, human portrait of a proud, musical, smart, and sexy people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-206).
"Parts of this book ... were first broadcast on National Public Radio's All things considered in Jan. 1998.  Other portions appeared in ... Life magazine, Aug. 1998, and in The New York Times Sunday magazine, Feb. 1, 1998"--Verso t.p.