THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE.
by Hijuelos, Oscar
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX.. 1989. First Edition. SIGNED by Oscar Hijuelos on the title page. Very close to fine in a fine dj. (A few tiny specks of foxing at edges) Pulitzer Prize winner and basis for a well received film. (O) ; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a 1989 novel by Oscar Hijuelos. It is about the lives of two Cuban brothers and musicians, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who immigrate to the United States and settle in New York City in the early 1950s. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1990, being the first novel by an American-born Hispanic to do so. It was the basis for a 1992 motion picture, The Mambo Kings, as well as a musical in 2005.
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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 313837
- Title
- THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE.
- Author
- Hijuelos, Oscar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction/latin American And Chicano Literature/oscar , Hijuelos/pulitzer Prize Winners/books Into Films/203
- Bookseller catalogs
- List203;
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