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the wonder years.('The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao')(Brief article)(Book review)
Byline: Taylor Antrim
Published in The New Yorker, then collected in 1996's widely celebrated Drown, Junot Diaz's early short stories introduced Yunior, a Dominican-American boy with an open heart and a finely wrought, streetwise voice. Eleven years later comes The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead Books), an exuberantly rewarding first novel more ambitious than Diaz's debut-if occasionally less polished. Back with a voice that has gotten more garrulous, more risque, and funnier, too, Yunior narrates the unhappy coming-of-age of Oscar de Leon, another girl-mad Dominican transplanted to New Jersey. But unlike Yunior, Oscar is devoted to ...
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...Byline: Carlin Romano "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz...Dominican in central Jersey, Brief Wondrous Life will receive thunderous praise...friends for the life of him." "Brief Wondrous Life" takes us A to Z through its...
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...Diaz discusses his book "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," the Dominican...best-selling novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Diaz describes...from his new novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." That was a...
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...Readers of his collection of stories, Drown, waited eleven years for the publication of his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead, $24.95, 352 pp.). The wait has been worth it. Recently awarded the Pulitzer...
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...Diaz would become "a giant of American prose." Good call. Now that Diaz's second book, a novel called "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," has finally arrived, younger writers will find that the bar just got set higher. And some older...
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JUNOT DIAZ isn't messing around. I Yunior--the narrator of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Woo (Riverhead, $25)--he is messing around. With women, with drugs, with his future, something both uncertain...
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE PLOT: Remember that guy in high school--the chubby sci-fi lover who couldn't get a date? That's Junot Diaz's mega-geek, Oscar. All the poor guy wants is to get laid. When he doesn't, he resolves to break the family curse he believes is responsible. Told in street
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