The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
A Novel
by Oscar Hijuelos
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An aging Cuban-American musician living in a flop house in East Harlem in the early 1980s recalls his youthful success: in 1949, as he and his brother played the dance halls of New York, they became known as the Mambo Kings. Postwar New York was an exciting place for Cesar and Nestor Castillo, and the lush, sensuous music they played, and the many women they loved, are pleasant memories for the ailing Cesar.
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Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 1990 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher New Star Media Inc |
Date 1991 |
Price $2.42 |
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Publisher Hyperion Books |
Date 2010 |
Price $17.59 |
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Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Date 1989 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 1992 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Perennial |
Date 1999 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Notes
It's 1949. It's the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the grand stage of New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become by night stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth--a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with nostalgia and deep afection. In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,Oscar Hijuelos has created a rich and enthralling novel about passion and loss, memory and desire.
Media Reviews
"Exhilarating and exuberant and passion-rocked...Hijuelos's American dream is as strong and rich and sweet as a Cuban coffee."
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