The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Oscar Hijuelos
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: California
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 the 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 sorting through a century of family photographs, while a variety of voices comment on the images and recall their different versions of how events fitted together. Both Nelson O’Brien and his only son, Emilio Montez O’Brien, are photographers, and emphasis is...
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