THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE
by HIJUELOS Oscar
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- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0241127939
- ISBN 13
- 9780241127933
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About This Item
1st edition 1989. Hamish Hamilton - London. 0241127939. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Just a tiny nick at top front corner of hinge on dustwrapper & book. .
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
- Black Cat Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5508
- Title
- THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE
- Author
- HIJUELOS Oscar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0241127939
- ISBN 13
- 9780241127933
- Publisher
- 1st edition 1989. Hamish Hamilton - London. 0241127939
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1990
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