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The following book review might be of interest to DR1 readers. . .
Regards,
. . . CES
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'Lifted' from Salon.com :
"}}} with recent stories in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and "Best American Stories," Junot Diaz has been hyped as the next young gun of American fiction. With his bare-knuckled prose ("That's the way it is. They built these barrios out of bad luck and you got to get used to that.") and tough, grim settings, Diaz works the same emotional landscape as early Jerzy Kosinski and Thom Jones. And like Jones and Kosinski, Diaz's work mainly consists of thinly veiled autobiography. {{{"
http://www.salon.com/sneaks/sneakpeeks960905.html
Regards,
. . . CES
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'Lifted' from Salon.com :
"}}} with recent stories in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and "Best American Stories," Junot Diaz has been hyped as the next young gun of American fiction. With his bare-knuckled prose ("That's the way it is. They built these barrios out of bad luck and you got to get used to that.") and tough, grim settings, Diaz works the same emotional landscape as early Jerzy Kosinski and Thom Jones. And like Jones and Kosinski, Diaz's work mainly consists of thinly veiled autobiography. {{{"
http://www.salon.com/sneaks/sneakpeeks960905.html