THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE <i> by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $18.95; 405 pp.) </i>
“Hijuelos has painted an erotic and desolate landscape where people surge to life and diminish with terrifying exactitude.”
“Hijuelos has painted an erotic and desolate landscape where people surge to life and diminish with terrifying exactitude.”