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Empress of the splendid season / Oscar Hijuelos.
LIBRA - Special PS3558.I376 E56 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hijuelos, Oscar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cuban American women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Cuban American women.
- Women cleaning personnel--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Women cleaning personnel.
- Cuban American families--Conduct of life--Fiction.
- Cuban American families.
- Cuban American families--Conduct of life.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 342 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperPerennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperPerennial, 2000.
- Summary:
- In 1940s New York, a rich man's daughter from Cuba falls in love with a waiter. They marry, have children and when he falls ill and is unable to work, she becomes the sole breadwinner, working as a cleaning woman. But one day her cleaning job will bring luck. By the author of Mr. Ives' Christmas.
- ISBN:
- 0060928700
- 9780060928704
- OCLC:
- 43435450
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