This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Daz

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Daz

Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award

A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012
Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize
Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more...

Electrifying. -The New York Times Book Review

Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize... D az's prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic. -O Magazine

From the award-winning author, a stunning collection that celebrates the haunting, impossible power of love.

On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover's washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness--and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses.

In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that the half-life of love is forever.

The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories have all published Junot Diaz's writing. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, his much anticipated debut novel, received rave reviews, with Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times describing it as a work that clearly confirms him as one of modern fiction's most distinctive and seductive new voices. Drown, his first story collection, was similarly hailed with unexpected acclaim when it was published eleven years before Oscar Wao; it became a national bestseller, won multiple accolades, and has now evolved into a landmark of contemporary writing. Diaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, is a professor of creative writing at MIT and lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781594487361
ISBN 10	1594487367
Title	This Is How You Lose Her
Author	Junot Díaz
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2012-09-11
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Short-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2012, Short-listed for National Book Award 2012
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