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"The tone of Oscar Hijuelos' new memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes &amp;mdash; with packloads of \"maybes\" and \"perhapses\" &amp;mdash; has a hallucinatory quality, with fine-boned descriptions applied to stories Hijuelos admits he only half-knows or remembers. For instance, the history of his mother's and father's families, including a rich (if highly theoretical) retelling of his parents' first meeting at the Neptuno movie theater in Holgu&amp;iacute;n, Cuba; and his metamorphoses from fearless toddler to sickly, comics-reading child to rambunctious guitar-playing teen of the Manhattan streets to 20th-century literary light."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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