The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Poche

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Author: Junot Diaz
ISBN: 9780571241231

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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. He dreams... Lire la suite

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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. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien but keeps falling hopelessly in love. Meanwhile his punk sister Lola wants to run away, and his enduring mother Bell can't seem to let either of them go.

Date de parution

01/09/2008
Editeur

Faber & Faber
ISBN

978-0-571-24123-1
EAN

9780571241231
Format

Poche
Présentation

Broché
Nb. de pages

335 pages
Poids

0.19 Kg
Dimensions

11,0 cm × 18,0 cm × 2,0 cm

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This warm, completely original and hugely acclaimed first novel tells the wondrous story of Oscar and his family, their attempts to find love and belonging in America.

Biographie de Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Cornell University. His collection of short stories, Drown, was described as a 'dazzlingly talented first book' by Hermione Lee in the Independent on Sunday. He is a professor at MIT (Massachussetts Institute of Technology). The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
His latest story collection, This Is How You Lose Her, was published in 2012.