The reader's companion to Cuba
By: edited by Alan Ryan.
Contributors: Ryan, Alan, 1943-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Visitors, Foreign -- Cuba -- Attitudes.; Travelers -- Cuba -- Attitudes.; Cuba -- Description and travel.; Havana (Cuba) -- Description and travel.; Cuba -- Social life and customs.; Havana (Cuba) -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: Cuba
Description: The Reader's Companion to Cuba offers nearly two dozen captivating eye-witness "reports" from visitors to Cuba's shores, among them Anais Nin's introduction to the "Fairyland" of Havana, Langston Hughes's surprising rumba party, an excursion around town with Fidel behind the wheel, Tommy Lasorda's baseball interview with pistol presiding, and Thomas Merton's pilgrimage to Our Lady of Cobre - a trip "nine-tenths vacation and one-tenth pilgrimage." From Arnold Samuelson's intimate portrait of Hemingway to Frank Ragano's recollections of the Mafia in Havana, The Reader's Companion to Cuba offers an infinitely more revealing and personal time-lapse "tour" of this complex country than could possibly be offered by any standard guidebook.
Notes: "A Harvest original."