The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781594489587
Subjects: Dominican Americans -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. From the back cover: "Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who 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 fuku - a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States and back again."
Table of contents: label: I
pagenum: 9; label: 1
title: GhettoNerd at the End of the World 1974-1987
pagenum: 11; label: 2
title: Wildwood 1982-1985
pagenum: 51; label: 3
title: The Three Heartbreaks of Belicia Cabral 1955-1962
pagenum: 77; label: 4
title: Sentimental Education 1988-1992
pagenum: 167; label: II
pagenum: 203; label: 5
title: Poor Abelard 1944-1946
pagenum: 211; label: 6
title: Land of the Lost 1992-1995
pagenum: 263; label: III
pagenum: 309; label: 7
title: The Final Voyage
pagenum: 315; label: 8
title: The End of the Story
pagenum: 323