The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in...
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(2007) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao p.g 224 Wiater, Stan, et al. (2007). The Stephen King Universe: The Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horror...
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Junot Díaz (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
book, the 1995 short story collection Drown. Diaz received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and...
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an abundance of self-reflexive, metafictional works, including novels and short stories by Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), Sandra Cisneros...
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2007 novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The collection is composed of nine interlinked short stories. This story was included in The Best American...
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World Autism Organisation Yōka Wao (born 1968), Japanese actress Oscar Wao, protagonist of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Wow (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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Thomas Pynchon; Nobel Prize: Orhan Pamuk 2007 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; On...
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Gef (redirect from Gef the Talking Mongoose)
Lloyd, with Neil Gaiman as the voice of Gef. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao features a talking mongoose. Hoover the talking seal Talking animal...
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1996. Drown precedes his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the short story collection This Is...
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2666 (category Novels set in the 1940s)
entanglements between the critics. This part concentrates on Óscar Amalfitano, a Chilean professor of philosophy who arrives at the University of Santa Teresa...
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Williams. The author Junot Diaz claims to have received the idea for the deep structure for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao from this book. The Ice Storm...
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Stephen King (redirect from The Works of Stephen King)
almost-holy glee when it comes to writing." The hero of Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao dreams of being "the Dominican Stephen King", and Díaz...
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How the García Girls Lost Their Accent, by Julia Álvarez, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. She directed and co-produced The Iron...
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Jesús Galíndez (category Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in the United States)
2003). Junot Díaz briefly relates the Galíndez case in a footnote to his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. List of people who disappeared...
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La Diablesse (category Culture of Grenada)
nickname La Jablesse for Jenni Muñóz in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007]. La Diablesse is the subject of a La'Diablesse Curse (2020), a horror...
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The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is a ranked list of the 100 best novels published in the English language since January 1, 2000...
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Trust (novel) (section My Life)
financier and his wife. The book is composed of four fictional texts: A Novel (Bonds), an incomplete autobiography (My Life), a completed memoir (A Memoir...
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Andreas Pietschmann (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2022)
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. Pietschmann gained fame due to his role in GSG 9 – Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben. On the show, he plays the urbane...
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Waterston, and Jessica Lange. The titles for the 2010/2011 season were Junot Díaz' The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, adapted and directed by Elise...
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Mirabal sisters (redirect from The Mirabal sisters)
role. The sisters are mentioned in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a 2007 novel by Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz.[citation needed] The story...
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was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Kingsolver was inspired by the Charles Dickens novel...
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com Review by NY Times, includes MP3 of author reading from the book Roy, Pinaki. "The Inheritance of Loss: A Brief Rereading". World English Literature:...
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Olive Kitteridge (section "The Piano Player")
burst of happiness of the kind Olive depends on to make her life worth living. Harmon, who runs the local hardware store, begins an affair with the widow...
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first novel since The Little Friend in 2002. The Goldfinch centers on 13-year-old Theodore Decker, and the dramatic changes his life undergoes after he...
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the very human-looking female he has rescued from a sinking UFO as Dejah Thoris. In the Junot Diaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Oscar describes...
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (redirect from Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one of the original Pulitzers;...
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Great American Novel (redirect from The great American novel)
Gonzalez's Great Américas Novel: 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' by Junot Díaz". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved...
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was also one of the narrators in Diaz's first novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in 2007. Yunior came to life by the pen of Junot Diaz in 1991...
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Baní (category Municipalities of the Dominican Republic)
Mangos "mamellitos" Baní is one of the places where the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao takes place. Superficies a nivel...
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Cornell University (redirect from Chairman of Cornell Board of Trustees)
The Crying of Lot 49. Junot Díaz ('95) wrote The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and E. B. White (1921)...
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