The Resource Drown, Junot Díaz
Drown, Junot Díaz
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The item Drown, Junot Díaz represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "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 forleaving culture and homeland behind."--San Francisco Chronicle. Junot Diaz's stories are as vibrant, tough, unexotic, and beautiful as their settings-Santa Domingo, Dominican. Neuva York, the immigrant neighborhoods of industrial New Jersey with their gorgeously polluted skyscapes. Places and voices new to our literature yet classically American: coming-of-age stories full of wild humor, intelligence, rage, and piercing tenderness. And this is just the beginning. Diaz is going to be a giant of American prose.-Francisco Goldman. 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Contents
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- Ysrael
- Fiesta, 1980
- Aurora
- Aguantando
- Drown
- Boyfriend
- Edison, New Jersey
- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie
- No face
- Negocios
- Isbn
- 9781573226066
- Label
- Drown
- Title
- Drown
- Statement of responsibility
- Junot Díaz
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 forleaving culture and homeland behind."--San Francisco Chronicle. Junot Diaz's stories are as vibrant, tough, unexotic, and beautiful as their settings-Santa Domingo, Dominican. Neuva York, the immigrant neighborhoods of industrial New Jersey with their gorgeously polluted skyscapes. Places and voices new to our literature yet classically American: coming-of-age stories full of wild humor, intelligence, rage, and piercing tenderness. And this is just the beginning. Diaz is going to be a giant of American prose.-Francisco Goldman. 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
- Cataloging source
- JRS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Díaz, Junot
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dominican Republic
- New Jersey
- Dominican Americans
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Drown, Junot Díaz
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ysrael -- Fiesta, 1980 -- Aurora -- Aguantando -- Drown -- Boyfriend -- Edison, New Jersey -- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie -- No face -- Negocios
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Isbn
- 9781573226066
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 37232271
- (OCoLC)37232271
- Label
- Drown, Junot Díaz
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ysrael -- Fiesta, 1980 -- Aurora -- Aguantando -- Drown -- Boyfriend -- Edison, New Jersey -- How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl, or halfie -- No face -- Negocios
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Isbn
- 9781573226066
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- 37232271
- (OCoLC)37232271
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