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Small stain to rear board, boards crisp and unworn; interior clean, tight, and bright. Very Good. Rubbing and moderate wear to price-clipped jacket. Good. 195pp. Octavo in grey cloth. Signed and inscribed by author on title page.
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Cambridge. 1981. Applewood. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0918222281. 195 pages. hardcover. keywords: Nicaragua Latin America Central America Politics Journalism. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In COCKTAILS AT SOMOZA'S, author Richard Elman reports from Nicaragua during and after the successful struggle by Sandinistan rebels to overthrow the Somozan government. Through three separate trips to the revolution-torn Central American country, liberated at the cost of thousands of lives, Elman sketches the people who found themselves, by choice or circumstance, participants in the bloodshed and terror. The book opens as Elman returns to Nicaragua after the revolution. There he encounters old friends and meets others touched by the war: Marco, a poet who fought until he was made a quartermaster; the Puma, a Managuan taxi driver; and the Sandinistan comandante, traveling from Managua to Leon with his wife and little girl to rebury their cousin. Through these encounters, the old and the new orders of Nicaraguan society are evoked. In the second section, Elman flashes back to the revolution, recording real events, his impressions, and his dreams through stories, interviews, vignettes, and translations of Nicaraguan poems. In the third section, Elman describes the reconstruction Nicaragua under the Sandinistan government, and sheds insight on what the future holds for Nicaragua and other ‘client states' of the U.S. in Latin America. Cocktails at Somoza's is a visceral chronicle of a revolution that may be the most consequential political event in recent decades in the Western hemisphere. inventory #9512.
