Mambo Kings Play Son

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Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love

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Author : Oscar Hijuelos
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-10-03

Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love written by Oscar Hijuelos and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-03 with Fiction categories.

When it was first published in 1989, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love became an international bestselling sensation, winning rave reviews and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that changed the landscape of American literature returns with a new afterword by Oscar Hijuelos. Here is the story of the memorable Castillo brothers, from Havana to New York's Upper West Side. The lovelorn songwriter Nestor and his macho brother Cesar find success in the city's dance halls and beyond playing the rhythms that earn them their band's name, as they struggle with elusive fame and lost love in a richly sensual tale that has become a cultural touchstone and an enduring favorite.

The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love By Oscar Hijuelos

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Author : Isabelle Tavernier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love By Oscar Hijuelos written by Isabelle Tavernier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.

A Study Guide For Oscar Hijuelos S The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2016-06-29

A Study Guide For Oscar Hijuelos S The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-29 with Literary Criticism categories.

A Study Guide for Oscar Hijuelos's "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

The Mambo Kings

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Author : Cynthia Cidre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991*

The Mambo Kings written by Cynthia Cidre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991* with Film adaptations categories.

Beautiful Maria Of My Soul

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Author : Oscar Hijuelos
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2010-06-01

Beautiful Maria Of My Soul written by Oscar Hijuelos and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Fiction categories.

In this mesmerizing sequel to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, the "heart-stealing heroine" (Amy Tan) and muse of Cuban musician Nestor Castillo takes readers on the journey of a lifetime with this story of reinvention, romance, and revolution. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, María is the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo’s heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings’ biggest hit, ‘Beautiful María of My Soul.’” Now in her sixties, María García y Cifuentes is the lady behind the song, living as an exile in Miami. But while she left Cuba decades ago, she has never forgotten Nestor. We now see the Mambo Kings’ story through Maria’s eyes—and as she thinks back to her days and nights in Havana, an entirely new perspective on the story unfolds. We meet her as an illiterate young woman with unspeakable, head-turning beauty who meets and falls in love with Nestor in Havana, but ultimately chooses to stay involved with a cruel, wealthy lover. When the Cuban Revolution intervenes, Maria and her daughter seek refuge in Miami. And as she finds community with other Cuban women and begins to take lessons at a local college, Maria finally goes from muse to the writer of her own story. Beautiful María of My Soul is a stunning act of reinvention, and another contemporary classic from an extraordinarily talented writer. Includes a Reading Group Guide.

Our House In The Last World

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Author : Oscar Hijuelos
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-04-09

Our House In The Last World written by Oscar Hijuelos and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-09 with Fiction categories.

A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in the debut––and most autobiographical––novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Winner of the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award and the Rome Prize Hector Santinio is the younger son of Alejo and Mercedes, who moved to New York from Cuba in the mid-1940s. The family of four shares their modest apartment with extended relatives in Harlem, where homesickness and nostalgia are dispelled by nights of dancing and raucous parties. But life’s realities are nevertheless harsh in the Santinio family’s adoptive land. When Mercedes takes Hector and his brother to visit Cuba, to better know her culture, Hector contracts a serious illness that leads to a terrifying period of hospitalization back in the United States where, isolated from his family, he loses much of his ability to speak Spanish. And it is this fracturing that sparks a lifelong quest to not only reconcile his Cuban identity with his American one, but to also understand his parents’ ambitions and anxieties within the country at large. In this profoundly moving account of immigrant life, Oscar Hijuelos displays, once again, his mastery over both character and language—and sets readers on an unforgettable journey of hope, longing, and self-discovery. Includes a Reading Group Guide.

Novels For Students

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Author : CENGAGE LEARNING. GALE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

Novels For Students written by CENGAGE LEARNING. GALE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.

Thoughts Without Cigarettes

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Author : Oscar Hijuelos
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-06-02

Thoughts Without Cigarettes written by Oscar Hijuelos and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist turns his pen to the real people and places that have influenced his life and literature. A comprehensive look into the mind of a writer. Born in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights to Cuban immigrants in 1951, Oscar Hijuelos introduces readers to the colorful circumstances of his upbringing. The son of a Cuban hotel worker and exuberant poetry-writing mother, his story, played out against the backdrop of a working-class neighborhood, takes on an even richer dimension when his relationship with his family and culture changes forever. During a sojourn with his mother in pre-Castro Cuba, he catches a disease that sends him into a Dickensian home for terminally ill children. The yearlong stay estranges him from the very language and people he had so loved. With a cast of characters whose stories are both funny and tragic, Thoughts Without Cigarettes follows Hijuelos's subsequent quest for his true identity — a mystery whose resolution he eventually discovers hidden away in the trappings of his fiction, and which finds its most glorious expression in his best-known book,The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Illuminating the most dazzling scenes from his novels, Thoughts Without Cigarettes reveals the true stories and indelible memories that shaped a literary genius.

American Literature On Stage And Screen

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Author : Thomas S. Hischak
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10

American Literature On Stage And Screen written by Thomas S. Hischak and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

The 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each literary work is described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds in conveying the spirit of the original in a different medium. In addition to famous novels and short stories by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather, many bestsellers, mysteries, children's books, young adult books, horror novels, science fiction, detective stories, and sensational potboilers from the past two centuries are examined.

Life On The Hyphen

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Author : Gustavo Pérez Firmat
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-05-01

Life On The Hyphen written by Gustavo Pérez Firmat and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Social Science categories.

An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author’s own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous and ordinary members of the “1.5 Generation” (Cubans who came to the United States as children or teens) have lived “life on the hyphen”—neither fully Cuban nor fully American, but a fertile hybrid of both. Offering an in-depth look at Cuban-Americans who have become icons of popular and literary culture—including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, musician Pérez Prado, and crossover pop star Gloria Estefan, as well as poets José Kozer and Orlando González Esteva, performers Willy Chirino and Carlos Oliva, painter Humberto Calzada, and others—Gustavo Pérez Firmat chronicles what it means to be Cuban in America. The first edition of Life on the Hyphen won the Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award and received honorable mentions for the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.