On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

A Novel

KORTE INHOUD

An instant New York Times Bestseller!



Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award



Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize



Winner of the 2019 New England Book Award for Fiction!



Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.



"A lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post



Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and 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 let...
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2020Uitgever: Veltman256 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte:  199x130x18ISBN-10: 0525562044ISBN-13: 9780525562047

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