03455cam a2200409 i 4500 1868421227 TxAuBib 20250122120000.0 241106t20251993||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781420521290 library binding ; large print $26.24 1420521292 library binding ; large print $26.24 (OCoLC)1468459810 TxAuBib rda Hijuelos, Oscar, author. Fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien / by Oscar Hijuelos ; foreword by Gary Soto. 14 sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien. Large print edition. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025. ©1993. 785 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Foreword: Historian of the heart by Gary Soto -- The house where they lived -- Their poppy and the story of how he came to America -- An unexpected love -- Emilio Montez O'Brien and his sisters -- A few moments of earthly happiness -- Reading group guide by Dr. Laura P. Alonso-Gallo. In his new novel, Oscar Hijuelos, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, brings to life the rambunctious Montez O'Brien family. The father, Nelson O'Brien, is an enterprising Irish immigrant who travels to Cuba as a photographer during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and there he meets his future wife, the sensitive, aristocratic, poetic Mariela Montez. As they are enroute to America in 1902, their first daughter, Margarita, whose reminiscences inform much of this novel's narrative, is born at sea. The Montez O'Briens settle in a small Pennsylvania town, where Nelson practices his photography trade and runs the Jewel Box Movie Theater, and Mariela gives birth to thirteen more daughters and then, finally, a son. As Margarita looks back on her long and full life, the novel recounts the lives, loves, and tragedies of the Montez O'Briens and their always complex relations with one another. It also follows Emilio through his days in Greenwich Village, the army, and Hollywood, where, as Monty O'Brien, he stars in grade-B detective and Tarzan movies and pals around with screen idols like Errol Flynn. Never altogether at peace in the overwhelming feminine world of his family, he searches restlessly for an elusive true love. And after an unhappy early marriage, Margarita herself finds the deepest passion of her life in extreme old age. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien is a raucous and heartfelt epic that spans both the continent and our century, a celebration of the moments of earthly happiness that give meaning to diverse yet deeply interrelated existences and of the constantly surprising, regenerating life force that keeps insisting on change and renewal. 20250122. Cuban Americans Fiction. Irish Americans Fiction. Families Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. American fiction 20th century. Large type books. Domestic fiction. Soto, Gary, writer of foreward. TXKPL