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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781573226066
ISBN: 1573226068
Label: Riverhead Trade
Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: July 01, 1997
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Sales Rank: 3916
Studio: Riverhead Trade
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Rating:  - a Bukowski rip-off
I read Drown and liked it. And then I read Bukowski's Ham on Rye. Man... Diaz is a thief.
Rating: - Quick easy read...
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.
Rating: - If you grew up on the streets, you might find some of these stories redundant
Junot Diaz is a good writer. Reading these stories is better than watching some dumb TV show depicting growing up the hard way. But for those of us who did grow up poor or with single mothers or with a bunch of deliquent friends, I just don't see this book as something to celebrate. Could it be that 'literary readers' are all from the middle class and find depiction of street life revelatory? I had the same experiences growing up on the streets of Brooklyn and didn't find the expression or situations ... Read More
Rating:  - Good but NOT Great
In my opinion Junot Diaz is a good writer. I found the book to be a good read, but NOT a great read. I was expecting so much more. I feel that so many main parts were left out, like how did they finally get to the states? It jumped back and forth too much. However, there were a lot of funny and interesting parts in the book. My favorite chapter was Drown.
Rating:  - immigrant stories about the American myth
This is the first book by the 2008 Pulitzer-winning author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." It's a collection of short stories that are set between the 1970's and 1990's in the Dominican Republic, the Bronx and in a variety of Northern NJ towns.
In "Ysrael," two brothers walk to another town in the DR to see a boy who wore a mask (because his face had been eaten off by a pig when he was a baby).
"Fiesta, 1980" is about a party in the Bronx that Yunior, the narrator ... Read More
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