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1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Jul 21, 2009 01:01

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz ( Read more... )

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harborshore July 21 2009, 05:54:04 UTC

I love this book too, and I've read a number of interviews with the author, and Yunior is not a loose autobiographical stand-in for him at all. He's used a couple of details that are similar to his own life and given them to Yunior, but in Diaz's opinion (and I agree), this is quite different.

harborshore July 21 2009, 05:54:50 UTC

Also, yes, the language of it was amazing, wasn't it? *grins*

anait July 21 2009, 22:13:09 UTC

Thanks for the correction, I appreciate it. I wondered, between Yunior's love of genre things, and his gradual development into a writer and a teacher, if Diaz was drawing on his own experiences.

Yep, it was!