brief wondrous life of oscar wao – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:36:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 It's How Good? /College/translation/threepercent/2007/09/05/its-how-good/ /College/translation/threepercent/2007/09/05/its-how-good/#respond Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:30:18 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/09/05/its-how-good/ Michiko Kakutani on Junot Diaz’s Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao:

a wondrous, not-so-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described as Mario Vargas Llosa meets Star Trek meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West.

Really. I probably would’ve went with Sabrina the Teenage Age instead of Star Trek, but whatever. It’s always good to see tried-and-true jacket copy techniques make their way into major book reviews. It’s like journalism meets laziness meets bad metaphor.

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