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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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- Average review for this item:
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"Captures the loneliness and confusion caused by adolescence, with wit and charm and a special tenderness towards the nerdy and sexual frustrated."
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"Oscar is a very interesting character, although the book itself is not as great as it could have been. Worth the time, though."
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"was taken aback by all the n-bombs, but otherwise it was an amusing story with good character development."
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"The best book I've read in a long while. Especially enlightening in regard to the current events in Haiti."
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"A book full of character cliches, written in the most cliched style imaginable (street-savvy sentence fragments, with slang that had dated before the he'd hit the period).
Pick any page at random for evidence."
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