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Summary: A cult classic
Review: Wendel weaves a wonderful baseball love story, as magical in its own way as W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe. For years, I've admired Wendel's pieces in national publications. This debut novel shows him to be a versatile, deft writer. Castro's Curveball pulls you in and holds you until the last page. This work will resonate with anyone who's ever looked deep into his own heart and revisited his past. I look forward to his next book.
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Summary: Richly detailed, reads like literary nonfiction
Review: When it comes to topics like this, I usually prefer nonfiction to the made-up stuff. This book reads like an actual memoir though, a realistic "what if" account that seems thouroughly researched. Tim Wendel transports you to the romantic Cuba of days past as well as the sad situation the country sits in today.You know that really charismatic person you used to hang out with when you were younger, that reckless guy who had a knack for getting you and your friends to do thnigs you would never do on your own? Well, what if you were to leave and then return several years later to find that person had become a dictator who has hoisted his vision on to the entire country? That's sort of what this book is about.
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Summary: Expected a lot more after the glowing reviews...
Review: Would make a better Hollywood film than a novel. Hated the prose. No compassion for the protagonist. And after reading the first chapter of Pride of Havana by ROBERTO G. ECHEVARRÍA was less than impressed with research that supposedly went into this novel.
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