The fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.
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0374158150, 9780374158156
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.
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484 pages ; 24 cm
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English
ISBN
0374158150, 9780374158156

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In his new novel, Oscar Hijuelos, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, brings to life the rambunctious Montez O'Brien family. The father, Nelson O'Brien, is an enterprising Irish immigrant who travels to Cuba as a photographer during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and there he meets his future wife, the sensitive, aristocratic, poetic Mariela Montez. As they are enroute to America in 1902, their first daughter, Margarita, whose reminiscences inform much of this novel's narrative, is born at sea. The Montez O'Briens settle in a small Pennsylvania town, where Nelson practices his photography trade and runs the Jewel Box Movie Theater, and Mariela gives birth to thirteen more daughters and then, finally, a son. As Margarita looks back on her long and full life, the novel recounts the lives, loves, and tragedies of the Montez O'Briens and their always complex relations with one another. It also follows Emilio through his days in Greenwich Village, the army, and Hollywood, where, as Monty O'Brien, he stars in grade-B detective and Tarzan movies and pals around with screen idols like Errol Flynn. Never altogether at peace in the overwhelming feminine world of his family, he searches restlessly for an elusive true love. And after an unhappy early marriage, Margarita herself finds the deepest passion of her life in extreme old age. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien is a raucous and heartfelt epic that spans both the continent and our century, a celebration of the moments of earthly happiness that give meaning to diverse yet deeply interrelated existences and of the constantly surprising, regenerating life force that keeps insisting on change and renewal.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hijuelos, O. (1993). The fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hijuelos, Oscar. 1993. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hijuelos, Oscar. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hijuelos, Oscar. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.

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