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The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales; Anna Kushner; José Manuel Prieto is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"This posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill... It's a frightening, nihilistic cousin of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."—Publishers Weekly Never before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in Miami where, in a shaken mental state, the writer William Figueras lives after his exile from Cuba. He claims to have gone crazy after the Cuban government judged his first novel "morose, pornographic, and also irreverent, because it dealt harshly with the Communist Party," and prohibited its publication. By the time he arrives in Miami twenty years later, he is a "toothless, skinny, frightened guy who had to be admitted to a psychiatric ward that very day" instead of the ready-for-success exile his relatives expected to welcome and receive among them. Placed in a halfway house, with its trapped bestial inhabitants and abusive overseers, he enters a hell. Romance appears in the form of Frances, a

Who reads The Halfway House?

Author

Guillermo Rosales; Anna Kushner; José Manuel Prieto

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811223263

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (245 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13