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(2000)., Adult, New Line Home Entertainment : distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis Call No: DVD Fic Before Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an early lover; a love-hate relationship lasts for years. Openly gay behavior is a way to spite the government. His writing and homosexuality get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends Lázaro Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving Cuba in the Mariel boat-lift. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, "Revenge.".
![Before night falls [DVD] (2000). Directed by Julian Schnabel.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Before night falls [DVD] (2000). Directed by Julian Schnabel.")
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-- 40 Cuban revolution reader.2001., Ocean Call No: 972.91 C962c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2010., Emerald Book Company Call No: QWF Fic Lan Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based in part on a true story, Havana Harvest follows the maneuvers of two adversarial intelligence services in their attempts to inflict maximum damage on each other as they move through a maze of high-tension suspense. In Cuba, General Patricio Casas must decide whether to support the revolution he has fought against for so many years or do what is good for his people and challenge the selfish authoritarianism of the Castroite regime. Meanwhile, CIA operative Robert Lonsdale is tasked with determining why a captain in Fidels armywho recently arrived in Miami with a suitcase full of moneyseeks U.S. protection from a Colombian drug cartel and the Cuban secret police. Lonsdale is quickly drawn into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder from which there seems to be no escapeunless he can convince General Casas to help. Apparently double-crossed by his colleagues and a self-serving Agency director, Lonsdale struggles on alone in an attempt to outfox the shadowy tormentors who intend to silence him forever.
