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On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel / Ocean Vuong.
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525562023 (hc)
- Physical Description: 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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| Subject: | Vietnamese Americans > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Families. > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | BOOK CLUB VUON (Text) | 30886000781506 | Book Club Sets | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-04-23 |
| Gibsons Public Library | BOOK CLUB VUON (Text) | 30886000781613 | Book Club Sets | Available | - | |
| Gibsons Public Library | BOOK CLUB VUON (Text) | 30886000781621 | Book Club Sets | Checked out | 2024-05-11 | |
| Gibsons Public Library | BOOK CLUB VUON (Text) | 30886000781639 | Book Club Sets | Checked out | 2024-04-23 | |
| Gibsons Public Library | BOOK CLUB VUON (Text) | 30886000781670 | Book Club Sets | Checked out | 2024-04-24 | |
| Gibsons Public Library | BOOK CLUB VUON (Text) | 30886000781688 | Book Club Sets | Available | - | |
| Gibsons Public Library | FIC VUON (Text) | 30886001066741 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth Weâre Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
