Summary: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

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I believe that The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008 because it is a book that world can correlate too. After perusing this book, it seems like a genuine story. Aforementioned is my secondary favorite novel that I have read subsequent The Alchemist. I enjoyed this book as much as I enjoyed The Alchemist. It was an interesting book to read including it keeping me entertained. I was disappointed that Oscar was murdered by Gorilla Grod and Solomon Grundy. "He told them that it was only because of her love that he'd been able to do the thing that he had done, the thing they could no longer stop, told them if they killed him they would probably feel nothing and their children would probably feel nothing

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