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Carregando... The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (edição: 2008)de Junot Díaz (Autor)
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It's definitely very well written, but too "professional" for my taste. It's like a brand new Led technology TV displaying a nature scene that looks so crisp and sharp that it has transcended reality. Supra-real. I found it mechanical, not involving. I kept reading because I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on something before the end. Relieved when done. Forgettable. ( )
Díaz’s novel also has a wild, capacious spirit, making it feel much larger than it is. Within its relatively compact span, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” contains an unruly multitude of styles and genres. The tale of Oscar’s coming-of-age is in some ways the book’s thinnest layer, a young-adult melodrama draped over a multigenerational immigrant family chronicle that dabbles in tropical magic realism, punk-rock feminism, hip-hop machismo, post-postmodern pyrotechnics and enough polymorphous multiculturalism to fill up an Introduction to Cultural Studies syllabus. It is Mr. Díaz’s achievement in this galvanic novel that he’s fashioned both a big picture window that opens out on the sorrows of Dominican history, and a small, intimate window that reveals one family’s life and loves. In doing so, he’s written a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive and irresistible new voices. Pertence à série publicadaEstá contido emTem um guia de estudo para estudantesPrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
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 he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ-the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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