The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1989. Uncorrected Proof.
SIGNED by Oscar Hijuelos on the title page. An uncorrected proof of the best-selling novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. The book served as the basis for the 1992 film, The Mambo Kings, starring Antonio Banderas.
Two Cuban musician brothers leave Havana in 1949 to find a new life in New York. It's the era of the mambo, and the Castillo brothers are workers by day and stars of the dance halls by night. "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a rich and enthralling novel about love and loss and memory and desire, an unforgettable paean to life itself" (from the blurb in the uncorrected proof).
Signed uncorrected proofs are scarce to the market.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 208 x 137 mm), 405, [1] pages, in green printed wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Some creasing to wrappers and to spine, a couple of light stray marks and stains to the wrappers, but internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Easily Very Good or better. Item #2943
Price: $100.00