Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas

Before Night Falls: A Memoir

Reinaldo Arenas with Dolores M. Koch (Translator)

317 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional sad slow-paced
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The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in...

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Moods

dark 76%
emotional 63%
sad 56%
reflective 54%
informative 45%
challenging 43%
tense 32%
inspiring 17%
adventurous 15%
funny 15%
hopeful 6%
lighthearted 4%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 30%
fast 11%

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