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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: PRHA 6822 | Penguin Random House AudioPublisher: New York : Penguin Random House ; [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2017]Copyright date: �2008Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 8 audio discs (9 hr., 53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 9780525493990
  • 0525493999
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3554.I259 B75 2017ab
Read by Lin-Manuel Miranda & Karen Olivo.Summary: 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�e--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.
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Read by Lin-Manuel Miranda & Karen Olivo.

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�e--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.

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