The Resource On earth we're briefly gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
On earth we're briefly gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
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The item On earth we're briefly gorgeous, Ocean Vuong represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- 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 letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born - a history whose epicentre 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. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years
- Language
- eng
- Label
- On earth we're briefly gorgeous
- Title
- On earth we're briefly gorgeous
- Statement of responsibility
- Ocean Vuong
- Title variation
- On earth we are briefly gorgeous
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born - a history whose epicentre 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. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years
- Cataloging source
- NJB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1988-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vuong, Ocean
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Vietnamese Americans
- Mothers and sons
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- On earth we're briefly gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065378959
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9781787331501
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- be2019022307
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781787331501
- (Sirsi) i9781787331501
- (OCoLC)1105166244
- Label
- On earth we're briefly gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065378959
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- 242 pages
- Isbn
- 9781787331501
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- be2019022307
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781787331501
- (Sirsi) i9781787331501
- (OCoLC)1105166244
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