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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Author:
Junot Díaz
Reader: Jonathan Davis, with Staci Snell
In his New Jersey home, poor, sweet Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican Tolkien. And he wants to fall in love. But he's doomed, haunted by the centuries-old family curse. Even so, he perseveres in the face of heartbreak and loss. Winnerof the Pulitzer Prize. Also includes national bestseller, Drown. "Highly entertaining... The real entertainment is the marvel of Diaz's voice, which is hip, high-energy, multilingual, and often hysterically funny."—BookPage
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Publish Date: 09/06/2007
ISBN: 9780143142805
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Synopsis:
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Oscar Wao is an overweight Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek living in a Dominican-American ghetto whose dreams are cut short by the 500-year curse that has plagued his family and his people, "The Curse of the New World." In his first novel since his universally revered collection of short stories, DROWN, Junot Diaz continues to distill the essence of the fractured second-generation experience. The rich tapestry of language in the novel (slang, Spanish, and the poetry of Homer) speaks volumes about the complicated and violent paths by which we find our place in the world. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2008.
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Book Awards:
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Winner of the
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction |
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Winner of the
2007 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction |
Author Bio:
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When he was 8 years old, Junot Diaz emigrated from the Dominican Republic to New Jersey, where he grew up in poverty. After graduating from Cornell University, he published a collection of short stories, DROWN (1996), to critical acclaim. It would be 11 more years before Diaz's debut novel appeared, but it was time well spent. THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO (2007) received tremendous praise and won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
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