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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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 fukú—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.

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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Awards:

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 6, 2007

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781101147306
  • Release date: September 6, 2007

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781101147306
  • File size: 1239 KB
  • Release date: September 6, 2007

PDF ebook

  • ISBN: 9781429560573
  • File size: 1710 KB
  • Release date: September 6, 2007

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
PDF ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:6.8
Lexile® Measure:1010
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:5-8

Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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 fukú—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.

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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Penguin Publishing Group

    Awards:

    Kindle Book
    Release date: September 6, 2007

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781101147306
    Release date: September 6, 2007

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781101147306
    File size: 1239 KB
    Release date: September 6, 2007

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9781429560573
    File size: 1710 KB
    Release date: September 6, 2007

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 6.8
    Lexile® Measure: 1010
    Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    Text Difficulty: 5-8
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