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Eleven stories based on Dìaz's youth in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Like Raymond Carver, one of his apparent influences, Mr. Diaz transfigures disorder with a rigorous sense of form. He whips story after story into shape by setting up parallel scenes."
New York Times Book Review - David Gates (09/29/1996)
"What writers bring first is the news; it takes longer to refine it into art. Depicting his fellow Dominicans in their struggling transit between island poverty and a laborious, denaturing effort to make their way here, Junot Diaz is in a transit of his own between news and art....The best stories in 'Drown' are far more than reportage."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Richard Eder (09/01/1996)
"'Drown' is a first collection of short stories that hits as hard as a surprise punch....[They] attest to his considerable gifts for conjuring disparate worlds through a merging of languages...to convey piercing images of loss and pain."
Times Literary Supplement - Phyllis Richardson (10/25/1996)
"Diaz's literary voice is unique, vibrant and poetic."
Washington Post Book World - Patricia Elam Ruff (11/03/1996)
"In these deceptively simple stories, Diaz displays an enviably accomplished style: understated and detached, yet evocative and compelling, especially in his ability to lay bare the hearts of his characters. There is a delicate clarity here, even in his portrayal of the seamier sides of human nature."
Literary Review - A. D. Reid (11/19/1996)
"These stories do so much so well, and are so warily delicate, that it is only when one has finished 'Drown' that one realizes, with a shock, that an entire world has moved by with not one moment of grand pathos, no moment of exultation, no aesthetic or visionary aeration, no metaphysical reckoning, no stylistic lavishness or verbal plenty, no moment of moral expansion. Everything is so stripped down and hidden that the stories begin to be about their absences....The language is canny and taut, but it dares just enough and not too much."
New Republic - James Wood (12/16/1996)
"The eleven stories...vividly evoke Dìaz's hardscrabble youth in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey....Dìaz has the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet..."
Newsweek - Unknown (01/15/1996)
"Díaz's spare style and narrative poise make for some disturbing fiction, full of casual violence and indifferent morality. A debut calculated to raise some eyebrows."
Kirkus (10/01/1996)
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