by Junot Díaz, Staci Snell, Jonathon Davis
Drown is an engulfing collection of interrelated stories, often involving Diaz' narrator Junior. Diaz has a way of writing his characters that makes them known to readers through their words and actions rather than a direct description from the narrator. A skill that is rare and always greatly appre...
2.5
read during my Punk Rock Flophouse YearsI Remember: linked stories about growing up in the Dominican Republic and then New Jersey... a writing style that is rather tight, clean, stripped-down, deadpan... i would have preferred a looser, rowdier writing style... a narrative that is alive and fresh, w...
3.5 stars
Earlier short stories by the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Most are linked by the character Yunior, and the collection is presumably autobiographical in some respects. It's lean and spare; where Oscar Wao exults in a frenzy of language, Drown is quieter but no less affecting. Simil...
Here is a collection of interconnected short stories that is gorgeous. The language is lush. The settings are vibrant. The characters are enthralling. Each story is this collection is brought to life with a barrage of delicately chosen words. Junot Díaz's Drown is a tense, yet lyrical collectio...
Suffed with images, both grotesque and tender, that will stay with me for life. And threaded by a smoothness of language rarely read, perhaps even more so than his 10-years-post follow up novel THE BRIEF WONDEROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO.
I wanted to like this collection. I really did. Recommended by a friend, the author having just recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and the writing being described as the kind of downbeat material I usually go in for in a big way, the 1996 short...
This was my introduction to Junot Diaz and I really enjoyed reading all of these stories. Each story is a very interesting read with lively characters.
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