D�iaz, Junot, 1968-
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot D�iaz. - London : Faber, 2009. - 335 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: New York: Riverhead, 2007; London: Faber, 2008.
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling in love. But poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the ancient curse that has haunted his family for generations.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; American National Book Critics Circle Award
9780571239733 (pbk.) : �7.99
Dominican Americans--New Jersey--Fiction.
Overweight men--Fiction.
General.
PS3554.I259
813.54
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot D�iaz. - London : Faber, 2009. - 335 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: New York: Riverhead, 2007; London: Faber, 2008.
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling in love. But poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the ancient curse that has haunted his family for generations.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; American National Book Critics Circle Award
9780571239733 (pbk.) : �7.99
Dominican Americans--New Jersey--Fiction.
Overweight men--Fiction.
General.
PS3554.I259
813.54