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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (CD-Audio)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThings have never been easy for Oscar Wao. 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 hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations.
Full description- Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books
- Published: 01 December 2008
- Format: CD-Audio 9 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781407428833 ISBN 10: 1407428837
- Sales rank: 461,560
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Full description for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Author Junot Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" - a novel that took him 11 years to complete. 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 hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" is a literary triumph that confirms Junot Diaz as one of the most exciting writers of our time. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.
