On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
MEDIA REVIEWS'A marvel.' - Marlon James 'A masterpiece.' - Max Porter 'Luminous, shattering, urgent, necessary.' - Celeste Ng 'Deeply moving... Little Dog's story is the story of modern America.' - Daily Telegraph 'Everything is beautiful in this debut... Vuong has originality running through his veins, and a good deal of humour and impish charm... This impressive debut hints at even greater things to come.' - The Times 'A stunning, beautiful book... His writing is phenomenal... Simply brilliant.' - BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review 'This is some of the most moving writing I've read... The tenderness of the prose feels like a triumph against a world hellbent on embittering the tenderhearted... the truths arrived at in this book are valuable precisely because they are steeped in feeling.' - New York Times 'Vuong is surely a literary descendant of the author of Leaves of Grass. Emerging from the most marginalized circumstances, he has produced a lyrical work of self-discovery that's shockingly intimate and insistently universal... Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.' - Ron Charles, Washington Post 'Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous confirms him as a master of inventive language that has its roots in the spoken word but reaches shimmering heights of lyricism, too.' - Joseph O'Connor, Sunday Independent Books of the Year
