This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz

This Is How You Lose Her
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Published
3 September 2013
Pages
240
ISBN
9781594631771

This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz

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… Diaz’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.

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