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Genre/Form: | Teen fiction Psychological fiction Domestic fiction Fiction Love stories Humorous fiction Bildungsromans Novels Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Díaz, Junot, 1968- Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao. New York : Riverhead Books, 2008 (OCoLC)992584563 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Junot Díaz |
ISBN: | 9781594483295 1594483299 9781594489587 1594489580 |
OCLC Number: | 191929189 |
Awards: | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 2007 Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize |
Description: | 339 pages ; 21 cm |
Series Title: | Book club kit. |
Responsibility: | Junot Díaz. |
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Abstract:
Tells a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. In this novel, Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect'.
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