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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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by Junot Díaz
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Availability:In StockContributor:Junot DíazAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2008-09-02Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594483295ISBN-10:1594483299UPC:9781594483295Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, Hispanic & LatinoAward:2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:8.01 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCN0NHGYN2
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

One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more...

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594483295ISBN-10:1594483299UPC:9781594483295Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, Hispanic & LatinoAward:2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:8.01 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCN0NHGYN2
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; and a debut picture book, Islandborn. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Publisher: Riverhead Books

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🏆 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Finalist - Fiction Award

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