The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who--from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister--dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuk --a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere--and risk it all--in the name of love.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Díaz, Junot
Published: 09/02/2008
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 9781594483295
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.20w x 0.90d