Elizabeth Strout, Oscar Hijuelos

Broschiertes Buch

Empress of the Splendid Season

Beschreibung

A "tender" snapshot of twentieth century New York about a hardworking seamstress turned cleaning woman, with a new cover, reading group guide, and foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout (New York Times Book Review).

Autor

Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013), a native New Yorker and the son of Cuban immigrants, was a Pulitzer Prize winning author of nine novels and a memoir and a recipient of the Rome Prize awarded by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He became the first Latino winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990 for his international bestseller The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and his novels have been translated into more than 40 languages. Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!; Olive, Again; Anything is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Price; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the  Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; and her most recent Tell Me Everything. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 135mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9781538722213
• ISBN-10: 1538722216
• Artikelnr.: 73327035