false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172150113m/143112.jpg 143112 4 Jaime Manrique's slim <I>Eminent Maricones</I> starts off with some disjunctive memories of his childhood in Colombia, but truly begins to pick up steam when Manrique recounts his friendship with fellow writer Manuel Puig (best known as the author of <I>Kiss of the Spider Woman</I>), who, despite his "drag queen mannerisms" was "one of the most tough-minded people I've ever met." After a short chapter portraying an encounter with Reinaldo Arenas two days before Arenas, his body ravaged by the effects of HIV, committed suicide, Manrique launches an in-depth consideration of the shifts in attitude toward homosexuality in the writings of Federico García Lorca. Reading Lorca after the deaths of Puig and Arenas, Manrique explains, helped him come to terms with his own internalized homophobia; it also creates a loose canon of gay Latino writers who fought against tyranny--though any influence this canon may have had on Manrique's own writing is left undiscussed. Although its intimate portraits will be appreciated by those with an interest in gay or Latino literature, or both, other readers may find <I>Eminent Maricones</I> too brief to hold their interest. 138047 19 4 1999 Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me total:7|5:2|4:3|3:1|2:1|1:0| 7 27 12 1 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 02:58:30 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 03:00:59 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Thu Oct 29 14:12:37 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 14:12:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 11 14:48:39 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 14:48:39 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 10 18:22:37 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 18:22:37 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Apr 23 10:27:32 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 10:27:39 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Apr 01 19:30:16 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 19:30:25 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Mar 29 09:21:20 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 09:21:25 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Mar 29 08:39:45 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 08:40:05 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Mar 29 08:21:43 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 08:21:43 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sun Mar 16 01:20:44 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 01:20:44 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Nov 18 07:39:36 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 14:57:51 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Fri Jun 15 00:59:51 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 00:59:51 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=143112