Drown
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Drown
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The work Drown represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Drown
- Statement of responsibility
- Junot Díaz
- Subject
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- Dominican Americans -- New Jersey -- Fiction
- Dominican Republic
- Dominican Republic -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Manners and customs
- McFadden Lecturer
- New Jersey
- Dominican Americans
- Short stories, American
- Short stories, American
- Short stories, American
- Short stories, American
- New Jersey -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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. Born and raised in Santo Domingo, Diaz uses the contrast between his island homeland and life in New York City and New Jersey as a fulcrum for his trenchant tales. His young male narrators are teetering into precarious adolescence. For these sons of harsh or absent fathers and bone-weary, stoic mothers, life is an unrelenting hustle. In Santo Domingo, they are sent to stay with relatives when the food runs out at home; in the States, shoplifting and drugdealing supply material necessities and a bit of a thrill in an otherwise exhausting and frustrating existence. There is little affection, sex is destructive, conversation strained, and even the brilliant beauty of a sunset is tainted, its colors the product of pollutants. Keep your eye on Diaz; his first novel is on the way." --Booklist
- A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard-fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry
- Cataloging source
- JRS
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3554.I259
- LC item number
- D76 1997
- Literary form
- fiction
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