The Cigar Maker edition by Mark McGinty Literature Fiction eBooks
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The Cigar City. The year is 1898. Young Cuban rebel Salvador Ortiz and his family have escaped the hardship of war-torn Cuba, but the union halls, cigar factories, and dark alleys of Tampa are filled with violence and vendetta. Salvador must defy constant labor strife and deadly corruption in a one-industry town known for backroom cockfights, street thugs, late-night abductions and mass production of the world’s best hand-rolled stogies. An ideological battle for control of the cigar industry tests Salvador’s self-respect and love of hard work as he fights to abandon his rambunctious, outlaw past and lead his proud Cuban family into a colorful immigrant society. His wish for a peaceful life as a husband, a father, and a man of dignity is threatened by a lawless underworld and a cultural conflict with a dangerous, bloody history. Based on true events.
Mark Carlos McGinty is a descendant of Cuban cigar makers whose work has appeared in Maybourne Magazine, Cigar City Magazine, Cigar Advisor and Montage Magazine. He grew up on ropa vieja, Cuban sandwiches, café con leche, and fresh-squeezed orange juice from his grandfather's tree in West Tampa. His favorite cigar is the Arturo Fuente Flor Fina 8-5-8. Mark lives in Minneapolis with his wife and daughter.
“Equal parts history and fiction The Cigar Maker captures the true spirit of Ybor City. You can practically hear the crowds, smell the tobacco and taste the café con leche.”
-Rodney Kite-Powell, Curator, Tampa Bay History Center
The Cigar Maker edition by Mark McGinty Literature Fiction eBooks
A nice slice-of-life novel for those of you interested in how life was lived by the working classes (and a little bit of the wealthy) in the cigar capital of the U.S., Ybor City, now a part of the greater Tampa FL. metro area. The book begins in Cuba of the late 1800s and follows a couple of would-be revolutionaries doing their best to make things difficult for their Spanish overlords. At the onset of the Spanish American War, the main character moves to Tampa Florida and from that point the book follows the history of Tampa in the early 1900s, in particular the labor unrest that plagued the cigar industry of the time. The characters transform and grow over time as they should, the lesson of the book being "grow up or die early and violently". There is joy, sadness, hard work, success, failure, tragedy, and pathos to be found here as we follow these characters and those around them in the years surrounding the early 20th century.Product details
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The Cigar Maker edition by Mark McGinty Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
having lived in the Tampa area for 30 years I found this book facinating. I never really considered what Tampa and Ybor were like at the end of the 1800 and early 1900s, when Ybor was know as Cigar City and was famous around the world. A well-told tale.
If you have any interest in Southwest Florida you will enjoy this novel of Ybor city, The novel is fast paced with strong character develobment. The story of a transplanted Cuban family is enjoyable reading. If you like a family saga you will be pleased with this nnovel
This book gives you some insight on the beginning of labor unions in the United States. It was really interesting. Also, it follows a Cuban family through a generation. I liked the end of the book where the author gave a synopsis of how the major characters continued their lives and when they died...like they sometimes do at the end of a movie.
Living in Tampa, I found this book to have a draw for me because of my familiarity with Ybor City, the location of the plot. The historical importance of the story is invaluable, and certainly I learned a lot about the trials and tribulations of the early 20th century factory workers, and the immigrants' hardships. As for style, however, I found that it is fairly simplistic and straightforward, which is fine, but I prefer a novel laced with more imaginative writing.
The Cigar Maker is a feast of a novel, a sweeping portrait of Salvador and Olympia Ortiz, who find themselves struggling with the growing pains of both their uprooted family as well as the new American city they call home.
The book opens with an unlikely romance between Salvador, a Cuban bandito, and Olympia, the daughter of a wealthy Spanish plantation owner -- an explosive love that McGinty cleverly mirrors with the explosion of the USS Maine and the resulting Spanish American war. From the wild jungles of Cuba the reader is catapulted to the wild streets of Ybor City, Florida, where every member of the Ortiz family quickly becomes enmeshed in the thriving cigar industry. McGinty introduces a wealth of characters, including Armando, the corporate bully who builds his empire with the help of corrupt cops and rigged bolito games, and Mendez, the lector whose fiery rhetoric helps paralyze the entire city.
McGinty does an expert job of rolling pulpy adventure sequences -- a bloody fist-fight in an alley, an escape from a Central American jungle -- with enough historical background to make you think you've just stepped out of a seminar on turn-of-the-century labor relations. But the meat of the education is about the cigars themselves. And to McGinty's credit the narrative never stops pushing forward toward its climactic and extremely satisfying end. The lessons about how cigars are made -- and how the industry affects the lives of its workers -- are woven seamlessly into the story, and left me with a great appreciation of cigars and, of course, cigar makers.
For transparency's sake I should note that I was hired to draw two maps for The Cigar Maker, so it's possible that I'm a bit biased. But as someone who is an impatient reader, and who has a habit of reading only a few chapters of a book before moving on to the next one, I can honestly say that I couldn't put this one down.
Highly recommended.
This is a historical novel with fictional characters. I suppose this is the category it falls in as it deals with real times from 1880 to 1930 and the real area of Ybor City but the characters are fictional. McGinty draws upon the history and tales of his family and gives you a feel for Ybor City and the cigar industry at that time. If you like cigars and are familiar with Ybor City today, you can imagine the areas he describes and see them as they are today and what they were back around 1900 when the cigar industry moved from Havana to Tampa.
Writing flows and provides information to that era and is a interesting book, I would think for both those who are involved in cigars and those are not. Highly recommended.
The title, "The Cigar Maker"' caught my attention and upon learning that the setting was Ybor City, I just had to read this book. I was born and raised just 16 blocks NE of 7th Ave. and I have many memories of the area.
My mother, in 1930, started work, at age 15, as a roller at Hav-A-Tampa Cigar Co. Machines had taken over most of the production by then and Mama finished the cigar with the final wrapper and she continued this job for 40 years. My Dad was a machinist at the same place for several years. In fact, that is where my parents first met.
My parents knew the locals and who was in the Mafia and where you could buy bolita tickets. Both bolita and cock fighting had been outlawed, but if you looked hard you could find it.
Cento Asturiano Hospital was still in operation when I graduated from high school in 1962. We shopped, we ate wonderful food and we went to the movies in Ybor City. Once you have a Cuban sandwich on real Cuban bread, you will not be happy with any substitutes. Black beans and rice, arroz con pollo, deviled crabs, flan, oh my, how, I miss it all.
Needless to say, I loved the book and my walk down memory lane. Although I am not Cuban or Spanish, I always felt at home in Ybor City.
A nice slice-of-life novel for those of you interested in how life was lived by the working classes (and a little bit of the wealthy) in the cigar capital of the U.S., Ybor City, now a part of the greater Tampa FL. metro area. The book begins in Cuba of the late 1800s and follows a couple of would-be revolutionaries doing their best to make things difficult for their Spanish overlords. At the onset of the Spanish American War, the main character moves to Tampa Florida and from that point the book follows the history of Tampa in the early 1900s, in particular the labor unrest that plagued the cigar industry of the time. The characters transform and grow over time as they should, the lesson of the book being "grow up or die early and violently". There is joy, sadness, hard work, success, failure, tragedy, and pathos to be found here as we follow these characters and those around them in the years surrounding the early 20th century.
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