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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Faber, 2009.Description: 335 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780571239733 (pbk.) :
  • 9780571239733 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.54 DIA
LOC classification:
  • PS3554.I259
Awards:
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; American National Book Critics Circle Award
Summary: 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 and he keeps falling in love. But poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the ancient curse that has haunted his family for generations.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Novels/Biographies 813.54 DIA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 207877
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Novels/Biographies 813.54 DIA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 207876

Originally published: New York: Riverhead, 2007; London: Faber, 2008.

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 and he keeps falling in love. But poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the ancient curse that has haunted his family for generations.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; American National Book Critics Circle Award

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