The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Diaz, Junot
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 1594489580
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489587
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing, first state dustjacket with Walter Mosley blurb. Author's first novel and second book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Slight soiling to white dustjacket. Lower corners slightly bumped.
Synopsis
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is a best-selling novel written by Dominican author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where Díaz was raised and deals explicitly with his ancestral homeland's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo. It has received numerous positive reviews from critics and went on to win numerous prestigious awards in 2008, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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- Bookseller
- Great Northern Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11007
- Title
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Author
- Diaz, Junot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594489580
- ISBN 13
- 9781594489587
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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