{"product_id":"oscar-hijuelos-the-mambo-kings-other-novels-loa-362-our-house-in-the-last-world-the-mambo-kings-play-songs-of-love-mr-ives-christmas-hardcover-3","title":"Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings \u0026 Other Novels (Loa #362): Our House in the Last World \/ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love \/ Mr. Ives Christmas - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOscar Hijuelos\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLori Carlson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLaura P. Alonso-Gallo\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA legendary Cuban-American storyteller enters the Library of America series with a volume gathering three seductive and profound novels about family, desire, music, and loss\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) is one of the most acclaimed Latino writers of the last half century. Here are three classic novels that opened a window on the Cuban-American experience, announcing a major new voice in our literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHijuelos launched his career with \u003cb\u003eOur House in the Last World\u003c\/b\u003e (1983), a resonant and nuanced novel portraying one immigrant's family story in midcentury Manhattan. At its center is Hector Santino, whose family has left the \"home province of Fidel Castro, Batista, and Desi Arnaz\" to settle in New York City, where their ebullient expectations of the good life in America lead, inevitably, to myriad disappointments and adjustments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his best-known novel, \u003cb\u003eThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love\u003c\/b\u003e (1989)--a book that Gabriel Garcia Marquez said he would have liked to have written--Hijuelos offers an unforgettable tribute to Latin music and its place in American culture around the middle of the twentieth century. Earning Hijuelos the Pulitzer Prize, the first to be awarded a Latino novelist, \u003ci\u003eThe Mambo Kings\u003c\/i\u003e is also about the fleeting nature of fame and celebrity as well as the more profound themes of love, desire, and family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poignant \u003cb\u003eMr. Ives' Christmas\u003c\/b\u003e (1995), which Hijuelos once noted was an attempt to write a Christmas story \"without being corny,\" takes up themes of loss and redemption in a story that poses the age-old question of why bad things happen to good people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Library of America edition marks the entrance of Hijuelos into the series with a deluxe hardcover edition that includes as well a newly researched chronology of the author's life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOscar Hijuelos\u003c\/b\u003e (1951-2013) was born in New York City, a second-generation Cuban-American. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eOur House in the Last World\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He became the first Latino writer to win the Pulitzer Prize when it was awarded to his second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, later adapted as a film (1992) and a stage musical (2005). He went on to publish six other novels (including the Young Adult book \u003ci\u003eDark Dude\u003c\/i\u003e) and the memoir \u003ci\u003eThoughts without Cigarettes\u003c\/i\u003e; his novel \u003ci\u003eTwain and Stanley Enter Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e was published posthumously. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos \u003c\/b\u003eis an editor, translator, novelist, and anthologist whose collections include \u003ci\u003eCool Salsa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRed Hot Salsa\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Path to the World: Becoming You\u003c\/i\u003e. She is author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Tertulia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flamboyant\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Stitch in Air\u003c\/i\u003e, and the translator of Marjorie Agosín's \u003ci\u003eLa luz del deseo \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Light of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e). She is the widow of Oscar Hijuelos, whom she married in 1998. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura P. Alonso-Gallo \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Barry University in Miami. A scholar of Latino, Caribbean, and Cuban American fiction, she is editor of the collections \u003ci\u003eEl sexo en la literatura\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvolving Origins, Transplanting Cultures: Literary Legacies of the New Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Voices: Interviews with American Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIdentidad y postnacionalismo en la cultura cubana\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 864\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45818027573445,"sku":"9781598537307","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/SfLecSBQ_P9781598537307_1452bdd8-eacd-43fe-9e4c-b190cdfa8887.webp?v=1771049126","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/oscar-hijuelos-the-mambo-kings-other-novels-loa-362-our-house-in-the-last-world-the-mambo-kings-play-songs-of-love-mr-ives-christmas-hardcover-3","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}