{"product_id":"the-halfway-house-guillermo-rosales-9780811218023","title":"The Halfway House","description":"Never before available in English, \u003cem\u003eThe Halfway House\u003c\/em\u003e is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in Miami where, in a shaken mental state, the writer William Figueras lives after his exile from Cuba. He claims to have gone crazy after the Cuban government judged his first novel \"morose, pornographic, and also irreverent, because it dealt harshly with the Communist Party,\" and prohibited its publication. By the time he arrives in Miami twenty years later, he is a \"toothless, skinny, frightened guy who had to be admitted to a psychiatric ward that very day\" instead of the ready-for-success exile his relatives expected to welcome and receive among them. Placed in a halfway house, with its trapped bestial inhabitants and abusive overseers, he enters a hell. Romance appears in the form of Frances, a mentally fragile woman and an angel, with whom he tries to escape in this apocalyptic classic of Cuban literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Behind the hardly one hundred pages,\" \u003cem\u003eCanarias Diario\u003c\/em\u003e stated, \"is the work of a tireless fabulist, a writer who delights in language, extracting verbs and adjectives which are powerful enough to stop the reader in his tracks.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guillermo Rosales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811218023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811218023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/27\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/23\/2009 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009 pg. 57","brand":"Guillermo Rosales","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46401255145727,"sku":"9780811218023","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4f90616-c6c6-444d-98d0-011bf695016f.jpg?v=1733887182","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-halfway-house-guillermo-rosales-9780811218023","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}