Ebook Download The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos
Positions currently this The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos as one of your book collection! Yet, it is not in your cabinet collections. Why? This is guide The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos that is provided in soft file. You can download and install the soft file of this stunning book The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos currently and also in the link given. Yeah, different with the other people which search for book The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos outside, you can get simpler to present this book. When some individuals still walk into the store as well as look guide The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos, you are right here only stay on your seat and get the book The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos.
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos
Ebook Download The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos
The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos. Welcome to the very best web site that supply hundreds sort of book collections. Below, we will certainly offer all books The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos that you require. Guides from famous writers as well as publishers are given. So, you could appreciate now to get one by one kind of publication The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos that you will certainly look. Well, pertaining to guide that you want, is this The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos your selection?
Keep your way to be here as well as read this page completed. You can appreciate looking the book The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos that you really describe get. Below, getting the soft documents of guide The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos can be done quickly by downloading and install in the web link web page that we give right here. Of course, the The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos will be yours quicker. It's no have to wait for the book The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos to get some days later on after purchasing. It's no need to go outside under the heats at center day to go to guide store.
This is several of the benefits to take when being the member and also get the book The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos here. Still ask what's different of the various other website? We offer the hundreds titles that are developed by advised writers and also publishers, all over the world. The connect to acquire and download and install The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos is additionally quite easy. You may not discover the challenging site that order to do even more. So, the method for you to obtain this The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos will be so very easy, won't you?
Based on the The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos information that our company offer, you might not be so baffled to be right here and also to be participant. Get now the soft documents of this book The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos as well as save it to be all yours. You saving could lead you to evoke the ease of you in reading this book The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos Even this is kinds of soft file. You could really make better possibility to get this The Fourteen Sisters Of Emilio Montez O'Brien, By Oscar Hijuelos as the advised book to review.
Born of Cuban/Irish parents, Emilio Montez O'Brien grows up surrounded by women, the youngest child of a family of fourteen sisters. His awareness of female charms blossoms at a very early age. As an adult he becomes a famous movie star. By the author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love".
- Sales Rank: #17048976 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Dove Entertainment Inc
- Published on: 1995-01
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 5.25" h x 4.00" w x 2.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
Hijuelos's Irish-Cuban saga.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Hijuelos, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love , has written a beautiful pastorale, loosely based on the idea of the limited text implied by photographs, in which the lives of 17 characters are developed. From the early 1900s to the 1980s, the Montez O'Brien family lives in a small town in Pennsylvania. As the title suggests, the family consists of an Irish father, Cuban mother, 14 daughters, and one son. Hijuelos interweaves their individual lives and loves, as in a family photo album, but reserves the fullest treatment for the eldest daughter, mother, father, and only son, who becomes a B-movie star and befriends, among others, Errol Flynn. Sexual liaisons play an important role, and Hijuelos composes women's stories with a loving hand. Readers looking for a strong plot and the urban sensibility of Hijuelos's earlier books will be disappointed; those whose interest is good writing will enjoy themselves. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/92.
- Harold Augen braum, Mercantile Lib., New York
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Hijuelos's fluency--whether seamlessly singing the sad ballad of a family harrowed by madness and displacement in his first novel, Our House in the Last World (1985), or the slightly happier, warmer, more infectious up-tempo one of the Pulitzer-winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989)--is his signature, and here he gives it a very, very long solo in a family chronicle that follows a huge Irish-Cuban family across the span of a century. The very title here speaks of muchness, and muchness is delivered--but much, disappointingly, about very little. The eponymous brother is a 1950's B-movie actor who hits the rocks, a pattern of modest success without hope of permanence that began with his Irish-born photographer father and Cuban poetess mother. The Montez O'Briens grow up in a small Pennsylvania town, and Hijuelos follows them out and back--to Cuba, New York, Hollywood, Alaska, Ireland--as they make do individually and together. But as often imperils such a feckless, loose-woven, overly charactered book, Hijuelos pretty quickly gives up trying to invest each sibling with the same detailed attention, focusing instead on the patrician eldest sister, Margarita--a woman of innate dignity and poise--and leaving the rest to serve as mere counterpoints. What Hijuelos seems to want to do more intently is write lyrically, and he does. Sometimes it's good lyricism--as in Mambo Kings, Hijuelos writes about sex with just the right amount of dirty relish and melody--and sometimes it's awful, plunging to the novice level: ``In his sisters' company, he'd experience a sensation of pure happiness and it would seem that everything around them emanated from those females, the world itself a fertile living thing, the earth beneath them humming with its unseen life....'' A family chronicle can manage to achieve both harmony and individuality- -Larry Woiwode's Beyond the Bedroom Wall is an example--but it takes a concentration of imagination that Hijuelos hasn't engaged here. Fat but flat. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Most helpful customer reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Another wonderful story by Hijuelos
By Mary Reinert
I believe I have now read all of Hijuelos' books and this one didn't disappoint. Although the oldest sister is the focal point of the story, the reader really gets to know the entire family -- each girl with her strengths, weaknesses, dreams, disappointments, and triumphs, and then there is Emilio surrounded by all those women in his life. The writing is so readable; the words just seem to "paint" a picture of this remarkable yet so ordinary family.
The book covers time from the turn of the century into the 1970's from Cuba, Ireland, and the US. The plot is an ongoing saga with no great twists and turns although as in real life, surprises do occur. The culture of US and Cuba is a realistic backdrop. Overall, great story about a great family -- but one not much different than any families we might know (of course, 15 children is a bit rare today).
The writing in this book just pulls you in; it's not a "page turner" of excitment. Rather it is a slow addiction.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Endless descriptions
By readmymind
I never feel compelled to rate books I've read. However, having purchased this book based on the rave reviews, I wanted to let people know that this book may not appeal to everyone. I virtually always finish any book I start, but since I read for pleasure, I decided not to punish myself by finishing this one. This writer is able to describe things beautifully. The problem is, that seems to be the main theme of the book -- descriptions. Long, rambling descriptions. This book is the equivalent of that person you never want to get stuck in the corner with at a party -- the one who goes on and on and then trails off on conversational side streets that have nothing to do with the original subject. For instance, at one point it sets out to describe something that is apparently about to happen on a particular day. It begins by describing the day and what everyone is doing and feeling and wearing on that day, then it tells about one of the sisters hanging a birdhouse, and from there goes on to describe their many birdhouses, followed by an in depth analysis and description of the person who gave them most of the birdhouses, (not a character in the book), and from there even goes on to describe the personality of yet another person whom the giver of the bird houses resembles (also not a character in the book). Bored yet? It goes on so long you forget where you started or where this rambling discourse was supposed to lead. It seems to be a book written to allow the author to use his gift of imagination and description, with any plot being completely secondary to the ongoing discourse. Although I'm sure there's a story in there somewhere, I got too bogged down in endless rambling detail to find it, or to care. I love it when an author is able to use beautiful words to paint a picture in my mind, but this was just too much. If you like words for the sake of words, and delving deeply into every single aspect of a person's thoughts and the activities of any given day, or a person's entire lifetime, regardless of whether they have anything important to contribute to the story, then you will love this book. Clearly, many people DO love it, and that is great. I just want to let those people who may not care for this type of writing know that it is not a book to be read for the plot or the story. It is a book to be read for the details. The plot, if in fact there is one, is entirely secondary.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
not that much plot, but decent prose
By J-Rock
This book was okay, but it did not really meet my expectations. I was expecting a lush romance in the Latin
tradition of "Love in the time of Cholera" that portrayed an entire family. The marriage of an Irish immigrant and his Cuban wife in Pennsylvania gave me a picture of a unique family and a different perspective on how families can arrive into our country. But it was really hard for me to figure out what this book was specifically about. A couple of characters get greater emphasis but it is more a long series of episodes than a novel that progresses towards an ending or even a complex picture. I think the novel would have worked better as a collection of short stories than the rambling work we have here.
Not bad, but I don't think this is the author's best work and I may try something else by Hijuelos like Mambo Kings before I give up on him. I enjoyed his prose and I hope to read something by him that tells a better tale.
2.5 stars
--SD
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos PDF
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos EPub
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos Doc
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos iBooks
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos rtf
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos Mobipocket
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, by Oscar Hijuelos Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar