Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1989. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition.. 408 pages. Hardcover first edition, bound in red cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. The previous owner's name is stamped and inscribed on the inside front cover, on the pastedown, and there is some light shelfwear to the edges of the dustjacket. Else, the binding is tight and solid, with sharp edges and clean, unmarked interior..

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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: Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 017778
Title: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Author: Hijuelos, Oscar
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
ISBN 10: 0374201250
ISBN 13: 9780374201258
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1989
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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