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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao

Author: Junot Díaz
Publisher: London : Faber, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : pbk. edView all editions and formats
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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 Fuk - the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Belletristische Darstellung
Named Person: Oscar Wao
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Junot Díaz
ISBN: 9780571239733 0571239730
OCLC Number: 269434453
Notes: Originally published: New York: Riverhead, 2007; London: Faber, 2008.
Awards: Shortlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009.
Description: 335 p. ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: Junot Díaz.

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Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight, and keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never  Read more...

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