NP Junot Diaz

[Charles Albert]

That is no understatement........Wao is Don Q, Akaky Akakyevitch, Lemuel
Pitkin, Pig Bodine and Tyrone Slothrop - and Diaz "chops" are forged in the
classics. The prose sucks you in and the argot is a riot.....


love,
cfa

On 7/7/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I like this bit:
>
>
> 'The book's pervasive sense of doom is offset by a rich and playful prose
> that embodies its theme of multiple nations, cultures and languages, often
> shifting in a single sentence from English to Spanish, from Victorian
> formality to Negropolitan vernacular, from Homeric epithet to dirty
> bilingual insult.'
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Wondrous-Life-Oscar-Wao/dp/1594489580/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-4764911-6769727?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183848258&sr=8-1
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