Oscar Hijuelos
Born
in The United States
August 24, 1951
Died
October 12, 2013
Genre
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
62 editions
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published
1989
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Mr. Ives' Christmas
13 editions
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published
1995
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Dark Dude
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2008
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The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
20 editions
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published
1993
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Beautiful Maria of My Soul
25 editions
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published
2010
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Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise
10 editions
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published
2015
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Empress of the Splendid Season
15 editions
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published
1999
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Our House in the Last World
12 editions
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published
1983
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A Simple Habana Melody
10 editions
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published
2002
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Thoughts Without Cigarettes
6 editions
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published
2011
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“On his back, Robert must have had time to see something beautiful, and not just the ugliness of a city street at the end of life. Even with the tremendous pain in his badly gutted belly he would have looked up beyond the fire escapes and the windows with their glittery trees and television glows, to the sky about the rooftops. A sky shimmery with the possibilities of the death; lights exaggerated, the heavens peeled back- a swirling haze of nebulae and comets - in some distant place, intimations of the new beginning into which he would soon journey”
― Mr. Ives' Christmas
― Mr. Ives' Christmas
“Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.”
― Mr. Ives' Christmas
― Mr. Ives' Christmas
“The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.”
― The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
― The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
Polls
October 2019 New School Classic Poll
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1915, 176 pages
Pet Sematary by Stephen King, 1983, 576 pages
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, 1968, 389 pages
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 1950, 359 pages
The Golem by Gustav Meyrink, 1915, 264 pages
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos, 1989, 407 pages
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