The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao /
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 m...
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- GhettoNerd at the end of the world, 1974-1987
- Wildwood, 1982-1985
- The three heartbreaks of Belicia Cabral, 1955-1962
- Sentimental education, 1988-1992
- Poor Abelard, 1944-1946
- Land of the lost, 1992-1995
- The final voyage
- The end of the story
- The final letter
- Acknowledgments.