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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Diaz, Junot
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 1594489580
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489587
- Seller
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Full number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2", original price of $24.95 right front flap. Boards are white with white cloth spine and red lettering; back of dust jacket says "Praise for Junot Díaz" and has 3 reviews - by Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book Review, and Newsweek. Previous owner's name written with black marker across top FFEP, shelfwear to rear panel DJ. 12mo, 339 pp., bookseller #00676.
Synopsis
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is a best-selling novel written by Dominican author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where Díaz was raised and deals explicitly with his ancestral homeland's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo. It has received numerous positive reviews from critics and went on to win numerous prestigious awards in 2008, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thleodore Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00676
- Title
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Author
- Diaz, Junot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594489580
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489587
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Thleodore Books
Biblio member since 2008
Wichita, Kansas
About Thleodore Books
Thleodore Books Specializing in Modern Firsts, books in Spanish (Libros en Espaol)
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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