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| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | 
 enlarge | Author: Junot Diaz
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  235 reviews
Sales Rank: 1519
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 2.1
ISBN: 1594489580
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781594489587
ASIN: 1594489580
Publication Date: September 6, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 A wonderful read! December 1, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Irreverent, funny and poignant, a must read for Antillians! My only pet peave? Too many mispelled and wrongly accented words in Spanish. Editors should do a better job for these errors are truly offensive to Hispanics.
WOW! November 30, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This wondrous tale combines the random ravings and tortuous self-deprecation of Catcher in the Rye and Portnoy's Complaint with the fantasy and humor of Kurt Vonnegut. Great literature is still alive. Thanks, Junot! I can't wait until your next creation!
KESinNYC November 28, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an AMAZING and GREAT book. Mr. Junot Diaz is a great writer. After reading his first effort Drown I did not hesitate to find his next work. Well worth the wait for this great piece. I agree with the reviewer who calls this a "high wire act balancing with astonishing dexterity". This story unfolds in an intricate way, spaning 3 generations of a family. Mr. Diaz writes his novel with great skill as the characters and story develops and flips back and forth through the generations. Life connects between the times. So interesting how Mr. Diaz writes and what he writes of. That is why this book is so great. The story and characters like some books are amazing. But the true genius is in the writer, who created this book with the levels of voices -(the narration is taken by different characters), and created a beautiful work. I highly recommend this book. I loved it.
Amazing November 28, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An amazing book. You'll finish reading it -- and then want to dive back in immediately. Hilarious, heartbreaking. Love the footnotes on Trujillo and the sci-fi references. And the re-appearance of Yunior from Drown as our guide to this family's saga.
a-ma-zing! November 28, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Even though people have been writing books for 1000s of years, Diaz has still managed to write in a brand new way. This is one of those books that is so good that it might just make you give up on your own writing career - or even worse, force you to be better. Read at own risk.
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