The Perez Family - Hardcover

Bell, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393027988 ISBN 13: 9780393027983

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990

Synopsis

After twenty years in Castro's prisons, Juan Perez comes to America and encounters culture shock, unpredictable characters, and confusion as he and his companion in exile, Dottie, search for the Perez family in Miami.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Made into a major motion picture that starred Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei, The Perez Family is "a profound little parable about the redemptive power of love. And when you put it down . . . you have glimpsed a single human truth, brilliantly stated. And it will linger in your mind for a long time."--New York Times Book Review

From Publishers Weekly:

After 20 years in Cuban prisons, Juan Raul Perez is hauled from his cell without any explanation. Is he facing his own execution? But a fate stranger than death awaits him: he is shipped off to Miami. Instead of being reunited with his wife and daughter, whom he'd sent to safety there just before his arrest, Juan travels through government processing centers, bewildered and not quite believing in his liberation. One U.S. agent's error results in his being registered as the husband of a fellow tranportee with the same last name, sexy Dottie with the "Cuban-madonna hips"; another bureaucrat's slipup lands Juan and Dottie in a shelter for the homeless instead of a refugee center. Dottie, ever-enterprising and desperate to get at the spoils of democracy ("John Wayne, Elvis Presley . . . blue jeans, nail polish"), persuades Juan that they will gain their freedom more swiftly if they allow the authorities to think them married; they subsequently "adopt" a grown son as well as a senile father. The two Perez families, the genuine and the self-invented, continue to form and reform as this lustrous black comedy unfolds. Bell ( Saint ) sustains her feverish plot with wit and verve; her humor and dexterity are matched by her mercy for her characters and the chaotic world so unforgettably rendered here.
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About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0393027988
• ISBN 13: 9780393027983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256