The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien

First edition. Sm. 4to. Pp. [10], 484. Quarter-bound black cloth over salmon-red paper boards with decorative device in blind to front; titled in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino.

The story of the rambunctious Montez O'Brien family, settled in a small Pennsylvania town in the early 1900's and consisting of fourteen daughters and one doggedly masculine son. Author's third book who wanted to "to portray a world in which women were very powerful. I took the idea of machismo and pushed it, getting inside the skin of the characters. I wanted to look behind the basic images of women." By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989). "[A]uthor's paean to femininity." –New York Times