The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
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- Label
- The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
- Statement of responsibility
- Junot Díaz
- Subject
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- trueMisfits (Persons)
- trueMen/women relations
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueHispanic Americans
- trueGhettoes, Hispanic American
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily curses
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueDominican Americans
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- Dominican Americans -- Fiction
- trueSocial acceptance
- truePersistence
- trueNew Jersey
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Publisher description: 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 Fukœ-the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2007.
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award: Fiction, 2008.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2007.
- Massachusetts Book Awards, Fiction Award, 2008.
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 2007.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2007
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2008.
- YALSA Outstanding Book for the College Bound, 2009.
- Great American Read, 2018.
- Awards note
- Pulitzer Prize, 2008
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 1010
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PS3554.I259
- LC item number
- B75 2007
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1010
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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