Add this copy of Our House in the Last World to cart. $2.99, like new condition, Sold by I Am Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minnetonka, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea Books.
Add this copy of Our House in the Last World to cart. $6.91, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea Books.
Add this copy of Our House in the Last World (a Novel) to cart. $7.69, very good condition, Sold by Magers and Quinn Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea Books.
Add this copy of Our House in the Last World to cart. $8.00, very good condition, Sold by Bedrock Books & Art rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Helena, MT, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea Books.
Add this copy of Our House in the Last World to cart. $11.12, very good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Stated first. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear and light tanning. Pages are clean. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
Add this copy of Our House in the Last World to cart. $12.99, very good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea Books.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. BW7-A 2nd printing hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Oscar Hijuelos to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, less than an inch tear on the back bottom right side, some scattered light stains, scratches and rubbing, tanning, and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light tanning and shelf wear. 9"x6", 235 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. It is a rare delight to come upon a first novel that shows a fine technical mastery and also succeeds in penetrating the surface of things to reveal the disorderly, often troubling, inner life of its characters. Our House in the Last World is just such a novel, and its publication marks the emergence of a new American writer of uncommon promise. In this story about the Santinio family, transplanted from Cuba to New York City, we are offered an intimate portrait of immigrant life. America is "the last world" for them, their final stopping-place. For Alejo, the father, it means escape from dreary farm life in San Pedro, perhaps a business of his own. For Mercedes, his wife, America is the last in an infinite line of worlds. She has had other lives, she believes, and will live again after her death. For the Santinio sons, Horacio and Hector, "the last world" is not only last-chance America, but also Cuba-the world before they were born, a place of sensuous beauty, ease, and ancestral memory, a mythical home. Spanning the years 1939 to the present, from Alejo's courtship of Mercedes to shortly after his death, the novel is told from a retrospective point of view that can only be considered that of the younger son, Hector. For him, the world breaks down into two languages, Spanish and English. Do women fall for his father because of his "Cubanness"? What does it means when he himself contracts a "Cuban illness, " when a year in a children's hospital "cures" him of his Spanish and leaves him speaking only English? Such issues are the stuff of Hector's struggle toward manhood, of his efforts to come to terms with a father who disappears for days, drinks and gambles his family's money away, but who possesses a tremendous dignity and who is a hero in Hector's eyes. Filled with ghosts and the delicate presence of flowers, drunken men who hang onto the walls as if on a tossing ship, the sights and sounds of Oriente Province and New York City, the sweet nutty films of a Cuban drink, the music and films of the 50's, lusty fantasies, and the toughest of city realities, Our House in the Last World is a work of beauty and foreboding.
Add this copy of Our House in the Last World to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Southampton Sag Harbor Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($13.95 price intact). Published by Persea Books, 1983. Octavo. Black boards stamped in silver. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Very light spotting to top page ends. Dust jacket is very good. 235 pages. ISBN: 0892550694. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
Add this copy of Our House in the Last World to cart. $22.00, very good condition, Sold by Book Alley rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. Very Good book in a good plus jacket. Jacket in protective mylar. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore since 1992.
Add this copy of Our House in the Last World (Inscribed Copy) to cart. $30.00, like new condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Persea Books.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY HIJUELOS ON THE TITLE PAGE "For Susan/ with best wished/ Oscar Hijuelos". Second printing. Author's first book, a novel of a family transplanted from Cuba to New York and the immigrant experience from 1939 to the present. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Laid in is a ticket fromHijuelos' appearance at Kean Univerity in 1998.
