01647cam a2200289 4500 888722526 TxAuBib 20160915120000.0 070424s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007017251 9781594489587 1594489580 9780739494288 0739494287 (OCoLC)123539681 DLC eng DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP IUK C#P IF9 VP@ LMR WSL CQU TEX JCL HSA DEBBG RCJ HFU TxAuBib Diaz, Junot, 1968- The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot D©Uaz. New York : Riverhead Books, 2007. 339 p. ; 22 cm. Publisher description: 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. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuk¿-the curse that has haunted the 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. 20160915. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2008. Dominican Americans Fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0745/2007017251-d.html URL https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0745/2007017251-b.html URL