Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy discusses his new novel, Chango’s Beads and Two Tone Shoes. When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life. It’s a tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro.
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Comments [3]
Tell Mr Kennedy I just nominate him for a Nobel Prize and compared him to Faulkner.
Given his long experience in Albany, what is Mr. Kennedy's evaluation of the president as a politician?
I find Kennedy's tone and language incredibly offensive...it went something like this, "all you have to do is scratch a Cuban and find santeria" - This is charged, questionable and stereotypical conclusion. As a Cuban born American I do know what I'm talking about and know Cubans a bit better than he.
When someone who is not part of a culture it is incumbent on them to respect that culture and not rewrite the rules.
A huge turn-off.
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