This is how you lose her

The Resource This is how you lose her

Label

This is how you lose her

Statement of responsibility

Junot Díaz

Language

eng

Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz's first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with "the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" ( Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year" by Timemagazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Timesbestseller list, establishing itself with more than a million copies in print as a modern classic. In addition to the Pulitzer, Diaz has won a host of major awards and prizes, including the National Book Critic's Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award. Now Diaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, 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: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, the stories in This Is How You Lose Herlay 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."

Award

ALA Notable Book, 2013
Booklist Editors' Choice, 2012
New York Times Notable Book, 2012.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3554.I259

LC item number

T48 2012

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult

Context

Context of This is how you lose her

Work of

This is how you lose her, Junot Díaz

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