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Cover art for ‘The Emperor of Gladness’ owned by Penguin Press. Ocean Vuong’s bestselling debut novel, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” took the literary world by storm. Upon its release, the book ...

Ocean Vuong’s books are enormously popular but it’s hard to see why. He is often an incompetent writer of prose and his plots are sentimental mush. The Emperor of Gladness (note twee title) is ...

The Emperor Of Gladness By Ocean Vuong Fiction/Penguin Press/Paperback/402 pages/$30.96 The subject is an unlikely contender for literary grace. Vuong sets his second novel in East Gladness ...

The author just launched his much-awaited second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” (out now from Penguin Press), which he’ll discuss at a sold-out Seattle Arts & Lectures event at Town Hall ...

I wanted to respect the pain.” Reflecting on “The Emperor of Gladness,” now an instant New York Times bestseller and the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick, Vuong returns to his poetic roots.

Sprawling where its predecessor was compact, The Emperor of Gladness opens on a view — sweeping in time and space — of East Gladness, Conn., a town that manufacturing left behind.

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