Book details
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao See large image

    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead) (Paperback) By (author) Junot Diaz

    Free worldwide delivery

    $12.86 - Save $2.15 (14%) - RRP $15.01 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
    all these other countries)     Usually dispatched within 48 hours     Add to basket | Add to wishlist |

    Also available in...
    Hardback $21.60
    CD-Audio $24.17

    Short Description for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoWinner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the most talked about--and praised--smash hit of 2007 follows the adventures of a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd plagued by a family curse.
    Full description

Other books

Other people who viewed this bought | Other books in this series | Other books in this category
Showing items 1 to 10 of 10

 

Full description | Reviews | Bibliographic data

Full description for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  • The most talked about?and praised?first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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.