Rachel’s Song

…novel Canción de Rachel (1969; Rachel’s Song, 1991) describes it thus:

…published Canción de Rachel (Rachel’s Song), a variation on the method used in the earlier testimonio. The subject of Rachel’s Song is an old diva from a Havana burlesque. Her story is drawn from printed sources, and she is a composite of different real persons. In 1981 Barnet published…