This Is How You Lose Her Contributor(s): Díaz, Junot (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594487367 ISBN-13: 9781594487361 Publisher: Riverhead Books OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Romance - Collections & Anthologies - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012024051 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012 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." |