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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoby: Junot DÃaz  List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $7.95 You Save: $6.05 (43%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781594483295 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 1594483299 Label: Riverhead Trade Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: September 02, 2008 Publisher: Riverhead Trade Studio: Riverhead Trade Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: It's been 11 years since Junot DÃaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who cranks out pages of fantasy fiction with the hopes of becoming a Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. The book is also the story of a multi-generational family curse that courses through the book, leaving troubles and tragedy in its wake. This was the most dynamic, entertaining, and achingly heartfelt novel I've read in a long time. My head is still buzzing with the memory of dozens of killer passages that I dog-eared throughout the book. The rope-a-dope narrative is funny, hip, tragic, soulful, and bursting with desire. Make some room for Oscar Wao on your bookshelf--you won't be disappointed. --Brad Thomas Parsons Product Description: The most talked about—and praised—first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister— dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted OscarÂ’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<./I> opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - OverratedThis book was recommended by several people and I read great things about it online. However, I felt it was incredibly overrated and no where near the previous Pulitzer Prize winner (The Road). It was painful to get through. The lack of Spanish translations and long pointless footnotes drove me nuts. Rating:  - This Book is KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF FANTASTIC!For me, Pulitzer Prize Winners are hit or miss. Oscar Wao is a bullseye. I loved everything about it. I read it in two days because I could not put it down. After almost a month, the story still lingers with me and I think about it every day and wish that every book I read bolled me over like TBWLOOW. The story follows Dominican loser Oscar De Leon through his childhood and early adulthood. He is a sci-fi, fantasy, dungeons and dragons overweight loveable loser who has many unrequited ... Read More Rating:  - Interesting, yet FrustratingThe Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao follows the life of a nerdy young man living in New York. Oscar is a comic book-loving overweight kid who is obsessed with girls, but lacks any kind of social skills to actually form a relationship. Even worse, he is of Dominican heritage, and has a reputation to live up to. Also, his family is haunted by a fukú, or curse, resulting from his mother's interactions with the former dictator of the Dominican Republic. The narration is done ... Read More Rating: - Oscar EverymanTHE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO can be a bit aggravating at first. Diaz rotates between English, Spanglish, Spanish, street jive, and an advanced professorial vocabulary. He also uses elaborate footnotes to explain the political situation in the Dominican Republic. But I defy anyone to not get involved in Oscar Wao's predicament. He is a lifelong virgin who loves women. He also weighs around four hundred pounds and is a role-playing, video game addict, whose ambition is to write science fiction. ... Read More Rating: - Good BookI am only half way through the book but I am enjoying it quite a bit. It is different. Would help to have a Spanish-English dictionary handy. 
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