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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 <i>This Is How You Lose Her</i> 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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This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Díaz
- Language
- Released
- 2013
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Damaged
- Price
- €6.09
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- Title
- This Is How You Lose Her
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Junot Díaz
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0571294227
- ISBN13
- 9780571294220
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Love, Compilations, Anthologies, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, USA, Relationships, American Literature, 21st Century, Latin American Literature, Latin America
- Description
- 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 <i>This Is How You Lose Her</i> 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.”