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. Writt...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2019.
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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books, Epistolary fiction, Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Epistolary fiction, Gay fiction, Novels, Gay fiction, LGBTQ+ fiction |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780525562030 0525562036 |