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Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir

Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir

Hijuelos, Oscar

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ISBN10: 0807024791
ISBN13: 9780807024799
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
From the first Cuban American author to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this exquisite memoir recounts the people and places that shaped a literary genius; reissued with a new foreword by Junot Díaz

Oscar Hijuelos's bold and impactful novels exploring the immigrant experience established him as a leading voice in Latin American literature. In Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Hijuelos tells his own story for the first time, introducing readers to the colorful characters and indelible memories that inspired his writing across decades.

Set against the bustling backdrop of Manhattan's Morningside Heights, Hijuelos's memoir reveals the fraught circumstances of his upbringing as a child to working-class Cuban immigrants.

Thoughts Without Cigarettes retells Hijuelos's past with vivid and intimate detail--from a long-term stay in the hospital as a child which caused him to forget his mother tongue, to entering the bustling literary community of New York City. Under the mentorship of Susan Sontag and Donald Barthelme, Hijuelos drew inspiration from his Cuban roots in his writing, as exemplified by his best-know novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.


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