![]() Imagine if, before Macomber is "accidentally" shot by his wife on that safari, Hemingway decided to pad the narrative with a couple hundred pages about Macomber's mother, sister, and grandfather - tangents that only serve to betray the proper focus of the story, its title, and the reader's trust. Imagine, if you will, that seven years after publishing "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," Ernest Hemingway decided to expand his well-known short story into a 350-page novel. Review of Junot Diaz’s first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” published Oct. If someone says they read this and liked it, punch them in the throat. Here's the review I wrote when it came out. ![]() How this book won the Pulitzer Prize AND the National Book Critics Circle is beyond me. ![]()
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