The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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DÍAZ, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Octavo. Full red-brown leather. Spine with three raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 340 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity (edges a touch tattered), Collector's Notes, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. Junot Díaz (b. 1968) was born in Santo Domingo and raised in New Jersey, and has described his fiction as the product of that specific double displacement — the Dominican Republic he left at six and the New Jersey he arrived in, neither of which ever fully became home. He graduated from Rutgers, took his MFA from Cornell, and is currently the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT. His debut collection Drown (1996) established him as one of the most original voices in American fiction; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , his first novel, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship followed in 2012. The New York Times placed it among the 100 best books of the 21st century. Oscar de León — Oscar Wao — is a fat, bookish, desperately romantic Dominican-American kid growing up in Paterson, New Jersey in the 1980s. He loves science fiction and fantasy with t

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