This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

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This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

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.

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.
Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. A graduate of Rutgers University, Diaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogota, Colombia, whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, Esquire, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. Leo's illustrations have been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, Pictoplasma, 3x3, and the Society of Illustrators. Leo lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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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
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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