Drown

New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Advance Reader's Edition. Signed by Diaz on the half-title page. NEAR Fine. White wraps, a crease at the foot of the spine, bumped at the top-right corner of the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The debut collection of stories, which remains in print today, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO. These stories lay much of the thematic groundwork that led to the success of OSCAR WAO. As the jacket puts it, "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.