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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Paperback - 2008
by Díaz, Junot
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Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the most talked about--and praised--smash hit of 2007 follows the adventures of a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd plagued by a family curse.
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- Title The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- Author Díaz, Junot
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 352
- Language EN
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
- Date 2008
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1594483299I4N10
- ISBN 9781594483295
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Themes
- Catalog Heading: Language Arts/Literature
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
- Topical: Coming of Age
Summary
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 fukú—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.
Listen to Junot Díaz’s interview on iTunes “Meet the Author” here.
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Citations
- Commonweal, 12/05/2008, Page 26
- Entertainment Weekly, 08/12/2008, Page 144
- New York Times Book Review, 09/14/2008, Page 28
- People Weekly, 09/22/2008, Page 63
- Poder Hispanic, 09/01/2008, Page 52
- Village Voice, 12/23/2009, Page 28