Junot Diaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma |
| Publication | World Literature Today |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0196-3570 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2008-03-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Junot Diaz |
| Author | n/a | Jim Hannan |
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| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | eNotes |
Junot Diaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York. Riverhead. 2007. 340 pages. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-59448-958-7
In his first novel, Junot Diaz writes with the potent style--sarcastic, cynical, terse, and, at just the right moments, sensitive--that made Drown (1997), his first book of short stories, a success. In The Brier Wondrous Lire of Oscar Wao, Diaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in New Jersey, writes a novel of the Americas that follows the fate of one particular family of Dominicans as it transpires in the Caribbean and in Paterson, New...
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