The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Oscar Hijuelos
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1930’s-1980’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Music or musicians, New York City, American Dream, 1980’s, Child abuse, Immigration or emigration, Multiculturalism, Cuba or Cubans, Television or television broadcasting, Bilingualism, Latinos, Latin America or Latin Americans
- Locales: New York, NY, Hollywood, CA, Havana, Cuba
Places Discussed
Hotel Splendour. Flophouse on New York City’s 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in which Cesar Castillo drinks himself to death, chosen for that purpose so that he can recollect much happier times, when it was a regular venue for fervent bouts of love-making with Vanna Vane. The name is ironically symbolic: for Cesar (unlike Nestor) New York is—at least to begin with—all splendor: a prolific well of sexual and other delights that shows no indication of running dry until Nestor’s death.
*Las Piñas. Village in Cuba’s Oriente Province that is near...
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