Jan 4, 2010

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien | The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien

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Author: Oscar Hijuelos
First Published: 1993
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The 1890’s to the 1990’s
Setting: Pennsylvania, Cuba, and Ireland
Principal Characters: Nelson O’Brien, Mariela Montez, Margarita Montez O’Brien, Emilio Montez O’Brien
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: Family or family life
Locales: California

Oscar Hijuelos’ third novel is a wide-ranging chronicle of the lives, loves, struggles, and interrelationships of the fifteen children of an Irish man, Nelson O’Brien, and a Cuban woman, Mariela Montez, who have settled in a small town in Pennsylvania. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien is presented in the form of an album of continuous memories, verbal photographs, and nostalgic images, clustered around major events in the lives of the family members. It is recounted in associative rather than chronological order, and it deliberately creates the effect of...

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The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien | The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien

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