Oscar Hijuelos
Ole! New Houses for Hijuelos
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Oscar Hijuelos.
Latin American author Oscar Hijuelos, who has struggled to replicate the success he enjoyed with his 1989 novel Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, is close to finalizing two separate book deals with two separate publishers, one of them for a novel and the other for a memoir.
The novel, according to editors who read the proposal, follows a character named Maria, who first appeared in Mambo Kings, a best seller that won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and in 1992 was turned into a hit movie starring Antonio Banderas. read more »
A Pointed Attack
It was easy for fans of Cuban-born writer Oscar Hijuelos to tell whom he was picking on when he was read more »
