On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : A novel / Ocean Vuong.
By: Vuong, Ocean
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BookPlace of publication: New YorkPublisher: Penguin PressDate of publication: 2019Description: 246 pages: 20 cm.ISBN: 9780525562047.Subject(s): Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Vietnamese Americans -- FictionDDC classification: F V982 2019 ONE Summary: 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. 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, masculinity, and our current American moment - immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma but undergirded by compassion and tenderness.
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| F So25 2017 ALM Almond / | F T17 1992 SEC The secret history / | F T659 2019 AGE A gentleman in Moscow / | F V982 2019 ONE On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : | F Y12 2023 DAY Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: | F Y15 2015 ALI A little life : | TR F C545 2021 KIM Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 = Palsip Yi Nyeon Saeng Kim Jiyeong / |
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. 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, masculinity, and our current American moment - immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma but undergirded by compassion and tenderness.
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