Oscar Hijuelos (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Although he produced several short stories, Oscar Hijuelos published only long fiction after his first book, Our House in the Last World, which developed from a story line written on scraps of paper as he worked as a clerk for an advertising agency.
Achievements
Oscar Hijuelos attained a large audience after winning a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Although Latino authors are often neglected by mainstream publishers and media, Hijuelos broke through ethnic barriers with his persistence,...
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