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Hijuelos, Oscar Empress of the Splendid Season
HarperFlamingo 1999 0060175702 / 9780060175702 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. 342 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban émigré named Lydia Espana--now a cleaning woman in New York. In magnetic prose, he juxtaposes Lydia's tale with the stories of her clients, contrasting her experiences with the secret lives of those for whom she works. No one writes better of love or the pulse of a city, nor has any writer better captured the complexity inherent in the emigration experience; how assimilation is at once the achievement of dreams, yet also a loss of the past. Empress of the Splendid Season is Hijuelos at his masterful best, a novel filled with incantatory, rhythmic prose and rich in heartfelt vision.
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Hijuelos, Oscar Empress of the Splendid Season (Advance Reader's Edition)
HarperCollins 1999 0060175702 / 9780060175702 First Edition Trade Paperback Very Good + Advanced Reading Copy (ARC)
ADVANCE READER'S EDITION. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. 326 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban émigré named Lydia Espana--now a cleaning woman in New York. In magnetic prose, he juxtaposes Lydia's tale with the stories of her clients, contrasting her experiences with the secret lives of those for whom she works. No one writes better of love or the pulse of a city, nor has any writer better captured the complexity inherent in the emigration experience; how assimilation is at once the achievement of dreams, yet also a loss of the past. Empress of the Splendid Season is Hijuelos at his masterful best, a novel filled with incantatory, rhythmic prose and rich in heartfelt vision.
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Hijuelos, Oscar Mr. Ives' Christmas
HarperCollins 1995 0060171316 / 9780060171315 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - Stated First Edition. NO price clippings. Remainder mark on bottom. NO writing or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages. 248 pages. - Hijuelos' novel tells the story of Mr. Ives, who was adopted from a foundling's home as a child. When we first meet him in the 1950s, Mr. Ives is very much a product of his time. He has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he is on his way to pursuing the typical American dream. But the dream is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed violently at Christmas. Overwhelmed by grief and threatened by a loss of faith in humankind, Mr. Ives begins to question the very foundations of his life. Part love story--of a man for his wife, for his children, for God--and part meditation on how a person can find spiritual peace in the midst of crisis, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a beautifully written, tender and passionate story of a man trying to put his life in perspective. In the expert hands of Oscar Hijuelos, the novel speaks eloquently to the most basic and fulfilling aspects of life for all of us. From The Critics Los Angeles Times He tells a story that is 2,000 years old and yet in so doing presents us with a book that is truly startling in its novelty...This is the best book Hijuelos has written. Which is saying something. Boston Globe Stunning...a triumph...with honesty at its core that seems almost shocking in this day and age. A lovely story. Philadelphia Inquirer Enthralling...A life-affirming novel, a worthy successor to Dickens. Denver Post Hijuelos shows us that miracles are something nearer than we believe. BookList With each novel, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning "Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" (1989) to "The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien" (1993), Hijuelos has grown more contemplative, more intrigued with the mystical, and more concerned with morality. In this magnetically tender tale, he explores the complexities of spirituality through the medium of a most unusual hero, Mr. Ives. A foundling, Ives' origins are a mystery although his appearance seems to indicate Spanish blood, and, indeed, Ives, a Manhattanite, is drawn to the society of his Cuban and Puerto Rican neighbors. Although his ethnicity is unknown, his devotion to Catholicism and his gift for drawing are indisputable, and they shape his introspective, quietly productive, and ever generous life. Given to much spiritual musing, Ives is stunned when he experiences a full-blown mystical vision on Madison Avenue one brilliant winter afternoon, an epiphany that both elates and troubles him. He passes his spiritualism on to his son, Robert, whose own visions compel him to enter a seminary. But Robert is murdered, shot at point-blank range outside the church just before Christmas. Ives is devastated, his faith shaken to the core. As Hijuelos traces his hero's quest for enlightenment in the wake of this tragedy, he describes all the forms prayer takes, ponders the true value of charity, and celebrates our aptitude for forgiveness. This is a magnificently sad and enchanting novel, a celebration, ultimately, of giving and of grace.
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Hijuelos, Oscar Mr. Ives' Christmas
HarperCollins 1995 0060171316 / 9780060171315 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition - Stated First Edition. NO price clippings. Remainder mark on bottom. NO writing or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages. 248 pages. - Hijuelos' novel tells the story of Mr. Ives, who was adopted from a foundling's home as a child. When we first meet him in the 1950s, Mr. Ives is very much a product of his time. He has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he is on his way to pursuing the typical American dream. But the dream is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed violently at Christmas. Overwhelmed by grief and threatened by a loss of faith in humankind, Mr. Ives begins to question the very foundations of his life. Part love story--of a man for his wife, for his children, for God--and part meditation on how a person can find spiritual peace in the midst of crisis, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a beautifully written, tender and passionate story of a man trying to put his life in perspective. In the expert hands of Oscar Hijuelos, the novel speaks eloquently to the most basic and fulfilling aspects of life for all of us. From The Critics Los Angeles Times He tells a story that is 2,000 years old and yet in so doing presents us with a book that is truly startling in its novelty...This is the best book Hijuelos has written. Which is saying something. Boston Globe Stunning...a triumph...with honesty at its core that seems almost shocking in this day and age. A lovely story. Philadelphia Inquirer Enthralling...A life-affirming novel, a worthy successor to Dickens. Denver Post Hijuelos shows us that miracles are something nearer than we believe. BookList With each novel, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning "Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" (1989) to "The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien" (1993), Hijuelos has grown more contemplative, more intrigued with the mystical, and more concerned with morality. In this magnetically tender tale, he explores the complexities of spirituality through the medium of a most unusual hero, Mr. Ives. A foundling, Ives' origins are a mystery although his appearance seems to indicate Spanish blood, and, indeed, Ives, a Manhattanite, is drawn to the society of his Cuban and Puerto Rican neighbors. Although his ethnicity is unknown, his devotion to Catholicism and his gift for drawing are indisputable, and they shape his introspective, quietly productive, and ever generous life. Given to much spiritual musing, Ives is stunned when he experiences a full-blown mystical vision on Madison Avenue one brilliant winter afternoon, an epiphany that both elates and troubles him. He passes his spiritualism on to his son, Robert, whose own visions compel him to enter a seminary. But Robert is murdered, shot at point-blank range outside the church just before Christmas. Ives is devastated, his faith shaken to the core. As Hijuelos traces his hero's quest for enlightenment in the wake of this tragedy, he describes all the forms prayer takes, ponders the true value of charity, and celebrates our aptitude for forgiveness. This is a magnificently sad and enchanting novel, a celebration, ultimately, of giving and of grace.
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Hijuelos, Oscar The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
New York, NY, U.S.A. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1993 0374158150 / 9780374158156 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
In his new novel, Oscar Hijuelos, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, brings to life the rambunctious Montez O'Brien family. The father, Nelson O'Brien, is an enterprising Irish immigrant who travels to Cuba as a photographer during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and there he meets his future wife, the sensitive, aristocratic, poetic Mariela Montez. As they are enroute to America in 1902, their first daughter, Margarita, whose reminiscences inform much of this novel's narrative, is born at sea. The Montez O'Briens settle in a small Pennsylvania town, where Nelson practices his photography trade and runs the Jewel Box Movie Theater, and Mariela gives birth to thirteen more daughters and then, finally, a son. As Margarita looks back on her long and full life, the novel recounts the lives, loves, and tragedies of the Montez O'Briens and their always complex relations with one another. It also follows Emilio through his days in Greenwich Village, the army, and Hollywood, where, as Monty O'Brien, he stars in grade-B detective and Tarzan movies and pals around with screen idols like Errol Flynn. Never altogether at peace in the overwhelming feminine world of his family, he searches restlessly for an elusive true love. And after an unhappy early marriage, Margarita herself finds the deepest passion of her life in extreme old age. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien is a raucous and heartfelt epic that spans both the continent and our century, a celebration of the moments of earthly happiness that give meaning to diverse yet deeply interrelated existences and of the constantly surprising, regenerating life force that keeps insisting on change and renewal.
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Hijuelos, Oscar The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
HarperPerennial 1990 0060973277 / 9780060973278 Trade Paperback Very Good +
Very-good+, clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean (NO tears). Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show light tanning. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's signature in book front, on blank page (Ian Schmitz). 407 pages. Caesar Castillo, the Mambo King himself, and his lovelorn brother, Nestor, together they were the heart of the Mambo Kings. Latin dance band sensation, and in their glory days, ah, they were something to see. The high times, the hottest dance moves, the rivers of whiskey and clouds of cigarette smoke, and the women- dark or fair, curvy or slim- always the women. From the clubs of Cuba to their Imperial Ballroom days in Brooklyn, and then to real fame (for a while) on national TV. But then tragedy struck , and there was nowhere to go but down.
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