The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) Share: Twitter Facebook Email. Finalists. Nominated as a finalist in Fiction in Billy Bathgate, by E.L. Doctorow (Random House) The Jury. The Jury. Joel Connaroe (Chair) President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. A story of immigrants who brushed with fame, were scorned by love, and maintained their machismo Cuban culture throughout their lives, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a scintillating tale. I had previously read Hijuelos' The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien and /5. Oscar Hijuelos won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. It is a is a wonderful period piece of the early 's, where night clubs had dance contests, men wore zoot suits, and women hoped that all the lace and garter belts and perfume would help them find the man to Cited by:
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos, Author, Johnson, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love () Notable awards: Rome Prize (American Academy in Rome) () Pulitzer Prize () Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature () Spouse: Lori Marie Carlson: Oscar Jerome Hijuelos (Aug - Octo) was an American novelist. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a novel by Oscar Hijuelos about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who leave their native country, emigrating to the United States and settling in New York City in the early s. Eugenio Castillo, the nephew of Cesar Castillo, narrates the opening of the novel. He describes a memory from when he was a child in.
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a novel by Oscar Hijuelos about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who leave their native country, emigrating to the United States and settling in New York City in the early s. Eugenio Castillo, the nephew of Cesar Castillo, narrates the opening of the novel. Oscar Hijuelos won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. It is. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. first edition hardback in near fine condition. a couple of minor marks to inside cover. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding, flawless black cloth boards.
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