Outcast
Morrow, Feb 2001, 24.00, 295 pp.
ISBN: 0060184884
In his forties, Havana high school teacher Elliot Steil is not a Marxist maniac. Perhaps it is his American father who abandoned Elliot and his now deceased mother over forty years ago or just his love for the relics of pre-Castro Cuba. His lack of demonstrated enthusiasm for Communism has cost him promotions he deserves over less qualified people.
Everything abruptly changes for Elli...