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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Díaz, Junot

  • ISBN: 9781594483295
  • ISBN10: 1594483299

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Díaz, Junot

  • List Price: $18.00
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House
  • Publish date: 09/02/2008
  • ISBN: 9781594483295
  • ISBN10: 1594483299
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Description: "An extraordinarily vibrant book that''s fueled by adrenaline-powered prose. . . A book that decisively establishes [Daz] as one of contemporary fiction''s most distinctive and irresistible new voices." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Daz finds a miraculous balance. He cuts his barn-burning comic-book plots (escape, ruin, redemption) with honest, messy realism, and his narrator speaks in a dazzling hash of Spanish, English, slang, literary flourishes, and pure virginal dorkiness." -- New York Magazine "Genius. . . a story of the American experience that is giddily glorious and hauntingly horrific. And what a voice Yunior has. His narration is a triumph of style and wit, moving along Oscar de Leon''s story with cracking, down-low humor, and at times expertly stunning us with heart-stabbing sentences. That Daz''s novel is also full of ideas, that [the narrator''s] brilliant talking rivals the monologues of Roth''s Zuckerman -- in short, that what he has produced is a kick-ass (and truly, that is just the word for it) work of modern fiction -- all make The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao something exceedingly rare: a book in which a new America can recognize itself, but so can everyone else." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Astoundingly great. . . Daz has written. . . a mixture of straight-up English, Dominican Spanish, and hieratic nerdspeak crowded with references to Tolkien, DC Comics, role-playing games, and classic science fiction. . . In lesser hands Oscar Wao would merely have been the saddest book of the year. With Daz on the mike, it''s also the funniest." -- Time "Superb, deliciously casual and vibrant, shot through with wit and insight. The great achievement of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is Daz''s ability to balance an intimate multigenerational story of familial tragedy. . . The past and present remain equally in focus, equally immediate, and Daz''s acrobatic prose toggles artfully between realities, keeping us enthralled with all." -- The Boston Globe "Panoramic and yet achingly personal. It''s impossible to categorize, which is a good thing. There''s the epic novel, the domestic novel, the social novel, the historical novel, and the ''language'' novel. People talk about the Great American Novel and the immigrant novel. Pretty reductive. Daz''s novel is a hell of a book. It doesn''t care about categories. It''s densely populated; it''s obsessed with language. It''s Dominican and American, not about immigration but diaspora, in which one family''s dramas are entwined with a nation''s, not about history as information but as dark-force destroyer. Really, it''s a love novel. . . His dazzling wordplay is impressive. But by the end, it is his tenderness and loyalty and melancholy that breaks the heart. That is wondrous in itself." -- Los Angeles Times "Daz''s writing is unruly, manic, seductive. . . In Daz''s landscape we are all the same, victims of a history and a present that doesn''t just bleed together but stew. Often in hilarity. Mostly in heartbreak." -- Esquire " The Dominican Republic [Daz] portrays in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a wild, beautiful, dangerous, and contradictory place, both hopelessly impoverished and impossibly rich. Not so different, perhaps, from anyone else''s ancestral homeland, but Daz''s weirdly wonderful novel illustrates the island''s uniquely powerful hold on Dominicans wherever they may wander. Daz made us wait eleven years for this first novel and boom!-- it''s over just like that. It''s not a bad gambit, to always leave your audience wanting more. So brief and wondrous, this life of Oscar. Wow." -- The Washington Post Book World "Terrific. . . High-energy. . . It is a joy to read, and every bit as exhilarating to reread." -- Entertainment Weekly "Now that Daz''s second book, a novel called The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , has finally arrived, younger writers will find that the bar. And some older writers--we know who we are--might want to think about stepping up their game. Oscar Wao shows a novelist engaged with the culture, high and low, and its polyglot language. If Donald Barthelme had lived to read Daz, he surely would have been delighted to discover an intellectual and linguistic omnivore who could have taught even him a move or two." -- Newsweek "Few books require a ''highly flammable'' warning, but The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Daz''s long-awaited first novel, will burn its way into your heart and sizzle your senses. Daz''s novel is drenched in the heated rhythms of the real world as much as it is laced with magical realism and classic fantasy stories." -- USA Today "Dark and exuberant. . . this fierce, funny, tragic book is just what a reader would have hoped for in a novel by Junot Daz." -- Publishers Weekly
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