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Diaz, Junot : Drown

Riverhead Books, New York, 1996

Original publisher's gray-brown boards backed with purple cloth and dust wrapper in mylar. Gilt lettering on spine of book. Dust wrapper has a white background and features a black and white photograph of a city street at night with a young boy walking by himself on the sidewalk. Jacket design by Lisa Amaroso. Cover photograph by Ken Schles. Photograph of author on back panel by Marion Ettlinger. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4." 208 pages, complete. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper not price-clipped. No remainder marks. Seemingly never read. An As New book in an As New dust wrapper. This is the author's first book. Junot Diaz (b. 1968) is a Dominican-American author, editor, and professor of Creative Writing. Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New Jersey with his family at a young age. Drown is a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories that follow the lives of Dominican immigrants in the United States during the 1980s. Excerpt from the front flap of the dust wrapper: "With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut. Diaz's work in unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of discovery. Already praised by Newsweek as having 'the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet,' Diaz evokes a world in which fathers are gone, mothers fight with grim determination for their families and themselves, and the next generation inherits the casual cruelty, devastating ambivalence, and knowing humor of lives circumscribed by poverty and uncertainty. In Drown, Diaz has harnessed the rhythms of anger and release, frustration and joy, to indelible effect.". Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: As New

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