DrownFrom the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made Díaz a literary sensation. |
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DROWN: Stories
User Review - KirkusD°az's first collection of ten stories, some having appeared in the New Yorker and Story, is certain to draw attention for its gritty view of life in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and rough ... Read full review
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User Review - Crazy Wolf - BordersI HATE FLYING. Years ago I had to fly to new mexico to hang out with a girl {waste of time}. I was freaking out on the plane, but I read Drown and let me say, it felt like Junot Diaz was talking to me ... Read full review
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 23 |
Section 3 | 47 |
Section 4 | 69 |
Section 5 | 91 |
Section 6 | 111 |
Section 7 | 121 |
Section 8 | 143 |
Section 9 | 153 |
Section 10 | 163 |
Section 11 | |
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| Title | Drown |
| Author | Junot Díaz |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin, 1997 |
| ISBN | 1573226068, 9781573226066 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Hispanic & Latino Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories (single author) |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |