Author | Ocean Vuong |
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Audio read by | Ocean Vuong |
Language | English |
Publisher | Penguin Press |
Publication date | June 4, 2019 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 256 |
ISBN | 978-0-525-56202-3 |
813/.6 | |
LC Class | PS3622.U96 O52 2019 |
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the debut novel by Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019.[1] An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother. It was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction[2] and was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.[3]