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Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Book club selection Bildungsromans Domestic fiction Fiction Proofs (Printing) Annotations (Provenance) Romans Novela Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Díaz, Junot, 1968- Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao (OCoLC)1231436264 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Junot Díaz |
ISBN: | 9781594489587 1594489580 9780739494288 0739494287 9781594483295 1594483299 9780525493990 0525493999 |
OCLC Number: | 123539681 |
Awards: | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction, 2008 |
Description: | 339 pages ; 22 cm |
Series Title: | 2018 Great American Read. |
Responsibility: | Junot Díaz. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | u261640 |
Abstract:
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the fukú--the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.

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