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Author: Junot Diaz
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7

ISBN: 1573226068
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781573226066
ASIN: 1573226068

Publication Date: July 1, 1997
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
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. Diaz's work is unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of discovery. Diaz evokes a world in which fathers are gone, mothers fight with grim determination for their families and themselves, and the next generation inherits the casual cruelty, devestating ambivalence, and knowing humor of lives circumscribed by poverty and uncertainty. In BDrown/B, Diaz has harnessed the rhythms of anger and release, frustration and joy, to indelible effect.

Product Description
A critically acclaimed debut collection of ten cynical and sentimental stories captures the bleakness of life, first in the Dominican Republic and then in New Jersey suburbia, for immigrants of color. Reprint. iNYT. /i"

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5 out of 5 stars

Short and Sweet December 17, 2008
After reading Junot Diaz' "Oscar Wao" one would think that no other book would live up to it! but I was wrong! I read "Drown" right after "Oscar Wao" and YES! he did it again! If you saw me on the train, I'm the one laughing and crying while reading this book, yup, words can't describe Junot Diaz' writing! - I can hardly wait for other books!

5 out of 5 stars

Drown November 29, 2008
It's been a while since I read this book, but it is one that stays in my library to read over every once in a while, and to lend out to my friends. So far everyone who has ever read it has enjoyed it.

4 out of 5 stars

Diaz Writes With Memorable Voice October 16, 2008
Junot Diaz has accomplished something rare in this collection of short stories: he's created an authentic voice for a cast of characters we desperately need to hear from but have previously been silent. More impressive, he does so without the cheap cynicism or affected posturing which characterizes so much "cutting edge" writing. He writes with sincerity, even pathos, while his unforgettable stories cut straight to the bone.

2 out of 5 stars

a Bukowski rip-off September 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I read Drown and liked it. And then I read Bukowski's Ham on Rye. Man... Diaz is a thief.

4 out of 5 stars

Quick easy read... September 24, 2008
I wasn't sure what to expect when I ordered this book and was pleasantly surprised by it. Being a "Dominicanphile" I felt it brought much insight from a Dominican's perspective. A very easy and enjoyable read. I finished hoping for more.

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