{"product_id":"empress-of-the-splendid-season","title":"Empress of the Splendid Season","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEmpress of the Splendid Season\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eOscar Hijuelos\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780060928704\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper Perennial\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2003\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban émigré named Lydia Espana--now a cleaning woman in New York. In magnetic prose, he juxtaposes Lydia's tale with the stories of her clients, contrasting her experiences with the secret lives of those for whom she works. No one writes better of love or the pulse of a city, nor has any writer better captured the complexity inherent in the emigration experience; how assimilation is at once the achievement of dreams, yet also a loss of the past. \u003cem\u003eEmpress of the Splendid Season\u003c\/em\u003e is Hijuelos at his masterful best, a novel filled with incantatory, rhythmic prose and rich in heartfelt vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Empress of the Splendid Season | Oscar Hijuelos | Paperback | 9780060928704 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1623761","offer_id":50698713071874,"sku":"1623761","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/710Pzbl0EYL.jpg?v=1791573069","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/empress-of-the-splendid-season","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}