The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao /
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TextPublication details: London : Faber, 2009Description: 335 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780571239733 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Dominican Americans -- New Jersey -- Fiction | Overweight men -- FictionGenre/Form: General. DDC classification: 813.54 LOC classification: PS3554.I259Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; American National Book Critics Circle AwardSummary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Books | Main Library Fiction | F .D542 2007 | Available | 31441 |
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