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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hijuelos, Óscar (1951-....)
Titre(s) : The Mambo Kings and other novels [Texte imprimé] ; Our house in the last world ; The mambo kings play songs of love ; Mr. Ives' Christmas / Oscar Hijuelos ; Lori Carlson-Hijuelos and Laura P. Alonso-Gallo, editors
Publication : New York : Library of America, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (883 p.) ; 21 cm
Collection : Library of America ; 362
Lien à la collection : The library of America
Note(s) : The first Latino novelist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Hijuelos (1951?2013)
wrote rich and radiant novels that brought the Cuban American immigrant experience
into the heart of American literature. "I marveled," recalls Juan Felipe Herrera,
at "how meticulous he was and how deep he got into the lives of Latino and Cuban Americans
in the United States." Hijuelos launched his career with Our House in the Last World
(1983), a masterful recreation of the psychological pressures of migration. At its
center is the young Hector Santinio, whose family has left the "home province of Fidel
Castro, Batista, and Desi Arnaz" to settle in New York City, buoyed by hopeful expectations
of America but drawn back by the nostalgic pull of Cuba, transformed in memory into
a paradise it never was. As Hector and his brother Horacio toggle between worlds old
and new, they achieve a hard-won sense of who they are and what they might become.
In his best-known novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989)"a book that Gabriel
García Márquez said he wished he had written" Hijuelos offers an unforgettable tribute
to Latin music and its place in American culture. Bandleader Cesar Castillo, at a
distance of several decades, recalls the passionate life and worldly pleasures he
enjoyed as his band catapulted to momentary stardom, culminating in his appearance,
with his brother, Nestor, on the I Love Lucy show. Pulsing with a rhythm and cadence
uniquely its own, The Mambo Kings is a beguiling meditation on the fleeting nature
of fame and celebrity as well as more profound themes of love, desire, and family.
Successful in business, blessed with a happy family, the hero of Mr. Ives' Christmas
(1995) appears to have achieved the American dream until his life is shattered by
the murder of his seventeen-year-old son
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Carlson-Hijuelos, Lori. Éditeur scientifique
Alonso Gallo, Laura P.. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Américains d'origine cubaine
Genre ou forme : Roman
Indice(s) Dewey :
813.4 (23e éd.) = Roman américain de langue anglaise - 1861-1899 [oeuvre]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781598537307. - ISBN 159853730X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47126637g
Notice n° :
FRBNF47126637
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