Arenas's first work set in the United States breaks new ground with the story of a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building. Oddly alienated from the tenants, he is seduced by their pets, who are determined to revolt against humans and human society.
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Arenas's first work set in the United States breaks new ground with the story of a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building. Oddly alienated from the tenants, he is seduced by their pets, who are determined to revolt against humans and human society.
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Add this copy of The Doorman: a Novel to cart. $3.41, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Grove Pr.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 0x6x8; Faint foxing to top and bottom of text block, and traces of wear to the bottom of the front board; otherwise clean and crisp in a bright and mylared dust jacket.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing (full numberline). Jacket present, with no significant shelfwear. Price on jacket flap is not clipped. Text clean and unmarked. First edition. We try to note every flaw we can find, and we are quite picky, so buy with confidence! 100% guaranteed!
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Fine in fine dust jacket. excellent in excellent jacket, first printing, as new, protected in nice brodart. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 191 p. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of The Doorman to cart. $10.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Grove Weidenfeld.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1991. June 1991. Grove Weidenfeld. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0802111092. Translated from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch. 193 pages. hardcover. Cover: Bascove. keywords: Latin America Caribbean Cuba Literature Translated. DESCRIPTION-Reinaido Arenas is the most widely read, most highly acclaimed writer of Cuba's post-revolutionary generation. For his earlier works, such as SINGING FROM THE WELL (which he wrote when he was twenty-three) and Old Rosa, Arenas was praised as a prodigious, explosive talent. THE DOORMAN, his first work set in the United States, breaks new ground with the extraordinary and tragic story of Juan, a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building in Manhattan. In his impeccable uniform, Juan opens the door fix a variety of characters, among them the Supreme Pastor of the Church of Love of Christ Through Friendly and Constant Contact; a young woman hell-bent on suicide (with whom Juan is secretly in love); an advocate of the totally prosthetic body; a pair of nearly identical gay lovers both named Oscar Times (but known as Oscar Times One and Oscar Times Evo); and a host of others whom Juan zealously endeavors to show ‘the true door to happiness? ' He fails miserably, but his own life takes a sudden turn when the tenants' pets-including a bear, a rattlesnake, an orangutan, golden fish, cats, dogs, and so on-begin to talk to him. Not only do the animals talk to Juan, but they are in fact determined to recruit him to their cause: a revolt against humans and human society, and a mass flight to liberty. Fantastic, satirical, dizzyingly inventive, THE DOORMAN is a bittersweet parable about freedom and community, told with a profound sense of humanity. inventory #6596.
