The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao [sound recording] : Drown / Junot Diaz.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415941942 :
- ISBN: 1415941947 :
- Physical Description: 13 sound discs (ca. 74 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Library ed.
- Publisher: Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. Compact discs. Bonus: includes Diaz's short story collection Drown. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Jonathan Davis. |
Summary, etc.: | Oscar is an overweight Dominican from the ghetto in New Jersey. He dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but Fukœ, the curse has haunted his family for generations. |
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Subject: | Dominican Americans > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Domestic fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | CD SPOKEN DIA (Text) | 36123106141375 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Author Notes
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot DÃaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and was raised in New Jersey. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, African Voices, and Best American Short Stories. He wrote the story collection Drown and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His debut picture book is entitled Islandborn, published June 2018. He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Bowker Author Biography)