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21 kwi 2011 · Illuminating the most dazzling scenes from his novels, Thoughts Without Cigarettes reveals the true stories and indelible memories that shaped a literary genius. Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
2 cze 2011 · Illuminating the most dazzling scenes from his novels, Thoughts Without Cigarettes reveals the true stories and indelible memories that shaped a literary genius.
14 lip 2011 · Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and the first Latino to win the Pultizer for fiction, reads from his memoir, Thought without Cigarettes.
With a cast of characters whose stories are both funny and tragic, this work follows the author's subsequent quest for his true identity into adulthood, through college and beyond, a mystery whose resolution he eventually discovers hidden away in the trappings of his fiction.--From publisher description.
2 cze 2011 · Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Hijuelos (Beautiful Maria of My Soul, 2010, etc.) revisits the people and experiences whose confluence created his most celebrated work, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989).
31 lip 2011 · Book review: Pulitzer winner Oscar Hijuelos' memoir, 'Thoughts Without Cigarettes,' richly evokes the artistic melting pot of his West Harlem childhood home and his journey to a literary...
2 cze 2011 · In his memoir, Oscar Hijuelos brings to life the locales that shaped his sense of self, from Morningside Heights to his mother's hometown in Cuba and his glorious sojourn in Spain and Italy. Which neighborhoods, towns, or countries capture who you are?
