Thoughts without cigarettes : a memoir / Oscar Hijuelos.
2011
PS3558.I376 Z46 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Thoughts without cigarettes : a memoir / Oscar Hijuelos.
Author
Hijuelos, Oscar.
ISBN
9781592406296
1592406297
1592406297
Imprint
New York : Gotham Books, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 367 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PS3558.I376 Z46 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54 B
Summary
In his first work of nonfiction, the author writes about the people and places that inspired his previous novels. Born in Manhattan's Morningside Heights to Cuban immigrants in 1951, he introduces readers to the colorful circumstances of his upbringing. The son of a Cuban hotel worker and exuberant poetry-writing mother, his story, played out against the backdrop of an often-prejudiced working class neighborhood, takes on an even richer dimension when his relationship to his family and culture changes forever. During a sojourn in pre-Castro Cuba with his mother, he catches a disease that sends him into a Dickensian home for terminally ill children. The yearlong stay estranges him from the very language and people he had so loved. 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.
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Table of Contents
The Way Some Things Worked Out
When I was still Cuban
A few notes on my past
Some moments of freedom
Childhood ends
What Happened Afterward
Getting by
My two selves
My life on Madison Avenue
Our house in the last world
Roma
Another book.
When I was still Cuban
A few notes on my past
Some moments of freedom
Childhood ends
What Happened Afterward
Getting by
My two selves
My life on Madison Avenue
Our house in the last world
Roma
Another book.