The passionate Marta de la Pena recruits an assortment of would-be guerrillas from Miami's Cuban community to help avenge her brother's death in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion

Los Gusanos

Literature & Fiction

SAYLES, John

United States

HARPER/COLLINS

Old and young, black and white, male and female, four generations of Cubans struggle to make a life in their adopted country, haunted by memories of their native Cuba. Reprint. $30,000 ad/promo.

Los Gusanos: A Novel

Literary

Perennial

The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a seventeen year old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries. It's a warm, dry place, and the girls are very available. But Hobie becomes involved in an increasingly vicious struggle for power in the group, and in the mounting violence of their political actions. His father Hunter, who has been involved in a brave and dangerous campaign to unseat a corrupt union president in the coal miners union, leaves West Virginia to hunt for his runaway son. To make ends meet, he takes day-labor jobs in order to survive while searching for him. Living parallel lives, their destinies ultimately movingly collide in this sprawling classic of radicalism across the generations, in the vein of Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, and Richard Price.

Union Dues: A Novel

The Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's outrageous, poignant and hilarious first novel, about a circus sideshow softball teamâ€”The Brooklyn Bimbosâ€”who play in drag at scraggly small towns across the South. The heart of the teamâ€”and the novelâ€”is a midget and former private eye named Pogo Burns, who is pursued by Dred, an evil super-pimp whom Pogo had earlier shot in order to rescue a woman he loved. The Pride of the Bimbos is about Pogo's rise, fall and eventual immortality, a man who refuses to admit he's a freak.

Pride of the Bimbos: A Novel

The Anarchists' Convention: Stories

Set in contemporary Miami, this is a portrait of a Cuban community. The characters include Cuban exiles, hustlers, wheeler-dealers, cynics, dreamers and drug barons. Running through the whole book are a central group of characters plotting the restoration of right-wing capitalism to Cuba.

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton

What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little help from Hollywood: Return of the Secaucus Seven, Sayles's first movie as director and writer, was produced with 60,000 of his own money. Many films later, he still works outside the studio system and guides every phase of his productions.Now Sayles has written an illuminating book about the complex choices that lie at the heart of every movie. Using the making of his film Matewan as an example, he offers chapters on screenwriting, directing, editing, sound, and more. Photographs, sketches, and the complete shooting script illustrate this engaging account of how Sayles's curiosity about a coal miners' strike in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, became a screenplay--and then a movie.

Thinking In Pictures: The Making Of The Movie Matewan

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Da Capo

Pride of the Bimbos

The Brooklyn Bimbos, a five-man softball team that plays in drag, provide crude sideshow comedy across the Deep South while their star shortstop, midget Pogo Burns, oblivious to his size, exerts his masculinity in games of softball, chance, and life

Little,Brown

Union Dues

1977, trade paperback reprint edition, Little Brown, Boston, MA. 385 pages. Early novel from a writer / talent who has moved on from this point to movies directed by the writer. "A realistic novel about how life is in the working class and around its fringes." "... distinguished by wit, inventiveness, and a profound involvement with character."

Fifteen stories filled with humor and compassion capture the idioms and strength of homeless, restless, and hopeful Americans including a kid on the road, anthropologists in the field, bums on a beach, and a lonely woman in Boston

The Anarchist's Convention

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Books by SAYLES, John

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Los Gusanos

Los Gusanos: A Novel

Union Dues: A Novel

Pride of the Bimbos: A Novel

The Anarchists' Convention: Stories

Los Gusanos

Thinking In Pictures: The Making Of The Movie Matewan

Pride of the Bimbos

Union Dues

The Anarchist's Convention