| International Standard Book Number |
9780593831885 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593831878 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
059383187X (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author.
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| Title Statement |
The emperor of gladness : a novel / Ocean Vuong.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
402 pages ; 25 cm.
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| General Note |
"Oprah's book club 2025"--Cover.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A year in the life of a wayward young man in New England who, by chance, becomes the caretaker for an eighty-two-year-old widow living with dementia, powering a story of friendship, loss, and how much we're willing to risk to claim one of life's most treasured mercies: a second chance"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Oprah's book club.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grief Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Loneliness Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Caregivers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Dementia Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
LGBTQ+ people Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New England Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Queer fiction.
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