The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Essential Passages by Theme: Love
Essential Passage 1: Chapter 1
Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he’d fallen into one of those Let’s-Be-Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love’s version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and of women.
Perhaps.
Summary
When Oscar was a child, he was considered cute; by the age of seven, he was even fairly successful...
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