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Drown
by Junot Diaz
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ISBN13: 9781573226066 |
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The world in Junot Diaz's short story collection Drown is gritty, sad, and hilarious, and the pictures he paints of life in the Dominican Republic, and of Dominican immigrants in America, is rich with pathos. When Drown came out in 1996, Diaz was hailed as one of the "new voices" — and already, the highest praise for a young writer is to be called the "next Junot Diaz."
Recommended by Frank Bures
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut. In "Ysrael", two brothers hunt a disfigured boy who hides behind a mask; in "No Face", the mirror is flipped and perspective belongs to the tormented. In "Fiesta, 1980", a spirited family gathering plays against the noiseless hum of a father's infidelities. In "Boyfriend", a young man eavesdrops on the woman next door and colors in the life overheard with the drama born of intense longing. And always, it seems there is the throb of waiting: in "Aguantando", for the fulfillment of a promise; in "Negocios", for rescue; in "Aurora", for respite; in "Drown", for resolution.
Review:
"This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican Republic — and other front-line reports on the ambivalent promise of the American dream — by an eloquent and original writer who describes more than physical dislocation in conveying the price that is paid for leaving culture and homeland behind" San Francisco Chronicle
Review:
"Junot Diaz is a major new writer. His world explodes off the page into the canon of our literature and our hearts." Walter Mosley
Review:
"Ever since Diaz began publishing short stories in venues as prestigious as the New Yorker, he has been touted as a major new talent, and his debut collection affirms this claim." Donna Seaman, Booklist
Review:
"Diaz expertly captures the rage and alienation of the Dominican immigrant experience." Robert Spillman, Salon
About the Author
Diaz was the only writer chosen by Newsweek as one of the 10 "New Faces of 1996." Drown was a nominee for the 1997 QPB "New Voices" award. "Ysrael" was included in Best American Short Stories 1996 and "Edison, NJ" appeared in the summer 1996 issue of the Paris Review.
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rwilson, January 7, 2007 (view all comments by rwilson)
Everyone's hot for Diaz' _Drown_. True, he's been published in the _New Yorker_ and that gives him a boost up from most of us rarely published unknown fiction writers. But still. . . .his characterizations are haphazard and he plays the one-string pity-me button a little too often. I am not sure yet if this fiction works for me, but it is always good to know the new stuff.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781573226066
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Riverhead Books
- Author:
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Short Stories (single author)
- Subject:
- Short stories, American
- Subject:
- New jersey
- Subject:
- Dominican Republic
- Subject:
- Dominican Americans
- Edition Description:
- 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
- Series Volume:
- no. 35.
- Publication Date:
- July 1997
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 8.04x5.18x.62 in. .43 lbs.
