age ~65
from Diamond Bar, CA
Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained.In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat ...
Author
Gustavo Perez Firmat
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
256
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN #
6
An immigrant from Cuba as a child, the author recounts growing up in Miami's Little Havana, his struggle to come to terms with American culture, his eventual estrangement from his family, and his feelings about his native country. Tour.
Author
Gustavo Perez Firmat
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
274
Publisher
Doubleday
ISBN #
038547296X
EAN Code
9780385472968
ISBN #
5
In a searing memoir of a fmaily torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. Now, married to an American woman, and father to two children who are Cuban in name only, Firmat has finally come to acknowledge his need to celebrate h...
Author
Gustavo Perez Firmat
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
202
Publisher
Arte Público Press
ISBN #
10
From Desi Arnaz and "I Love Lucy" to Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, Cuban-Americans have conga'd and mambo'd their way into the heart of popular culture in the United States. This engaging book, which mixes the author's own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how ...
Author
Gustavo Perez Firmat, Gustavo Perez Firmat
Binding
Paperback
Pages
231
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN #
0292765517
EAN Code
9780292765511
ISBN #
9
Some people would call Frank Guerra fussy, even compulsive--but they're wrong. He simply believes in perfection. And Frank believes in romantic love. He believes in love so strongly that he's willing to divorce his faithful wife Marta, lose his old friends, and even leave behind his daugther Emily--...
Author
Gustavo Perez Firmat, Gustavo Petez Firmat
Binding
Paperback
Pages
143
Publisher
Arte Publico Pr
ISBN #
1558852956
EAN Code
9781558852952
ISBN #
7
In a searing memoir of a fmaily torn apart by exile, Perez Firmat chronicles the painful search for roots that has come to dominate his adult life. Now, married to an American woman, and father to two children who are Cuban in name only, Firmat has finally come to acknowledge his need to celebrate h...
Author
Gustavo Perez Firmat
Binding
Paperback
Pages
202
Publisher
Arte Publico Pr
ISBN #
1558852123
EAN Code
9781558852129
ISBN #
3
Reflexiones sobre el exilio, el lenguaje y la identidad, 2000.
Author
Gustavo Perez Firmat, Gustavo Perez Firmat
Binding
Paperback
Pages
123
Publisher
EDICIONES UNIVERSAL
ISBN #
0897299167
EAN Code
9780897299169
ISBN #
8
poetry, Cuban/American, some English/some Spanish
Author
Gustavo Perez Firmat
Binding
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Bilingual Pr (Bilrp)
ISBN #
0927534479
EAN Code
9780927534475
ISBN #
1