On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous & Night Sky with Exit Wounds By Ocean Vuong 2 Books Collection Set

by Ocean Vuong

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the American Book Award and the MacArthur “Genius Grant," he has also worked as a line cook, tobacco harvester, nursing home volunteer, and fast-food server, the latter becoming inspiration for The Emperor of Gladness. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City.

Reviews

[Gina Schneider · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ocean Vuong writes like his name, Ocean. His writing alternates between soothing, crashing, warmth, and cold. It can toss you about so that you don't know where you will end up. Yet it can cradle you with a comfort that you sense could shift at any moment. Like all great literary fiction, he expands empathy and compassion for unfamiliar yearnings and trauma.

[Robyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heartbreaking, and beautiful book.

[Tamaron Greene · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poetically beautiful and devastating at the same time

[Freya Main · Rating 5 out of 5]

favourites - always and forever, in newport I watch my father lay his cheek to a beached dolphins wet back, homewrecker, untitled (blue, green, and brown): oil on canvas: mark rothko: 1952, prayer for the newly damned, someday I’ll love ocean vuong, and devotion

[Christa Blake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vuong braiding a father's violence, a refugee inheritance, and queer first love into images that keep catching the light at unexpected angles. The control of the line is remarkable for a debut. Tender and brutal at once. I dog-eared half of it.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully written. Never read a book like this before.

[Julie Puckett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poetic, disturbing, achingly beautiful.

[evealla]

dates are wrong but it took me like two days to read absolutely breathtaking probably top five books oat

[hannah sofia · Rating 5 out of 5]

ocean vuong u are amazing

[Christina Purvis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the saddest and most beautiful books ive read recently

[Sheri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully written; poetic. Difficult story at times. But the writing!!

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

All the many ways we hurt each other