On Demand
Survival Kit
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Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos was born in New York City, and still lives there, just a few blocks from where he grew up. But if his novels are any clue, at least a piece of his heart resides in his ancestral land of Cuba.The author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, A Simple Habana Melody, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien, and other novels has explored the Cuban-American experience in exquisitely detailed prose. Let’s see what he’s packed in his survival kit for a sojourn far from his beloved cities of Havana and New York.
Oscar Hijuelos's List:
1. Vitamins
2. Guitar and tape recorder to tape songs he writes on guitar
3. Birdseed
4. Spanish-English dictionary
5. Don Quijote in Spanish
6. Edward Gibbon’s Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
7. Bach records
8.Telescope
9. The Tarbell Course in Magic
10. Chess set