The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz, Jonathan Davis, Staci Snell • BookLikes

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by: Jonathan Davis (author) Staci Snell (author) Junot Díaz (author)

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But... show more

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Format: audiobook

Publisher: Penguin

Minutes: 657

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Contemporary, Magical Realism, Fiction

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Joelle's Bibliofile rated it

6 years ago

http://jnmegan.booklikes.com Joelle's Bibliofile 4.0 Truly Wonderful and wonderfully True

text Truly Wonderful and wonderfully True

Wonderful and lyrical, tragic and thought-provoking 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner. Uses multiple points of view to poignantly examine the experience of three young adults straddling between their origins in a Dominican Repulic decimated by war and their transition to a lower class area of New Jersey. T...

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Literary Sara rated it

8 years ago

http://LiterarySara.booklikes.com Literary Sara 4.5

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Another book I picked up from a used book sale. The book grabbed me by its intro, which mixes pop culture and scifi/fantasy references with historical details from the Dominican Republic and a little bit of magic and curses. How does that even work? How is it possible that the first chapters describ...

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Sarah's Library rated it

9 years ago

http://sarahf1984.booklikes.com Sarah's Library 1.5 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

text The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

31/5 - This isn't working for me. The footnotes are bothering me particularly. I barely know anything about the Dominican Republic and I feel like Diaz expects me to be well versed in their history and their notable historical figures, as well as other pop culture references that are as clear as mud...

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DanySpike rated it

9 years ago

http://DanySpike.booklikes.com DanySpike 4.5 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz

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This book had been recommended to me over and over but I kept putting it off. Now I understand why everybody wanted me to read it. This book shows you the life of Oscar and his family in a very special, latinamerican way, with passion, fury, magic and resignation. It truly felt as if I was readi...

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The English Student rated it

10 years ago

http://theenglishstudent.booklikes.com The English Student 4.0 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

text The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

I'm really not sure what I can say about The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I'm not even 100% sure I actually enjoyed it. It's the story of several generations of a Dominican family and the supposed curse that lingers around them from the time of the Dominican dictator Trujillo. Chronologically...

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