The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Mylar cover included.
“You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.”
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. Tolkein and most of all, of finding love. but he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ—the curse that has haunted 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.
Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Mylar cover included.
“You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.”
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. Tolkein and most of all, of finding love. but he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ—the curse that has haunted 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.
Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Mylar cover included.
“You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.”
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. Tolkein and most of all, of finding love. but he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ—the curse that has haunted 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.
Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss.
ISBN 978-1-59448-958-7
Junot Diaz
2007
Pulitzer Prize Winner