Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Prebound - 2008

Name: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Author: D&Atilde;&shy;az, Junot
ISBN: 9781606868201

de Junot Diaz

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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The most talked about?and praised?first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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.

Detalles

Título Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Autor Junot Diaz
Encuadernación Prebound
Páginas 335
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Perfection Learning
Fecha de publicación 2008-09
ISBN 9781606868201 / 1606868209
Peso 0.75 libras (0.34 kg)
Dimensiones 8.17 x 5.08 x 1.14 pulgadas (20.75 x 12.90 x 2.90 cm)
Nivel de lectura 1010
Temas
- Catalog Heading: Language Arts/Literature
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
Dewey Decimal Code FIC