This Is How You Lose Her
| Author: | Junot Diaz |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Publish Date: | September 11, 2012 |
| ISBN-10: | 1594487367 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781594487361 |
| List Price: | $26.95 |
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Title: This Is How You Lose Her
Synopsis
Junot Diaz made a splash with his debut novel, THE BRIEF AND WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO. With this, his second collection of short stories, Diaz returns to a narrative voice that will be familiar to his readers. Most of the stories in THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER are told in the first person by a young Dominican man known as Yunior. With Diaz's characteristic intelligence and sense of humor, Yunior details his failed attempts at love, along the way revealing much about his family, his attitude toward women, and because of Diaz's ability to hop between the particular and the expansive, much about our contemporary moment.
Publisher Notes
Junot Díaz burst into the literary world with Drown , a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" ( Newsweek ). His eagerly awaited first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , arrived like a thunderclap, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Now Díaz turns his prodigious talent to the haunting, impossible power of love. The stories in This Is How You Lose Her , by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through - "the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying" - to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care. They teach us the catechism of affections: that the faithlessness of the fathers is visited upon the children; that what we do unto our exes is inevitably done in turn unto us; and that loving thy neighbor as thyself is a commandment more safely honored on platonic than erotic terms. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience, and that ?love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever.?
Industry Reviews
"Raw and honest, these stories pulsate with raspy ghetto hip-hop and the subtler yet more vital echo of the human heart." (starred review)
(06/18/2012)
"[S]harply observed and morally challenging."
(08/15/2012)
"In describing the particulars of one Dominicano's often frustrated attempts to achieve romantic stability, Díaz deploys a universal language of the human condition."
(09/14/2012)
"Diaz banks on the appeal of his characters to balance their less palatable qualities: cruelty, abuse, infidelity. From story to story, he brandishes the force of these voices, almost always to strong effect. This complexity is one of the greatest appeals of Diaz's work."
(09/13/2012)
"His prose style is so irresistible, so sheerly entertaining, it risks blinding readers to its larger offerings. Yet he weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Diaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status."
(09/23/2012)
"[A] miniaturist performance--a modest, musically structured riff that works variations on one main subject: a young Dominican man's womanizing and its emotional fallout."
(09/21/2012)
Click on this books subject categories to see related titles:
Fiction themes > Literary genres & types of novels > Anthology (single author)
Other Available Formats:
Paperback, 2013
Hardcover, 2013
Compact Disc, 2012
Book Details Summary: The title of this book is This Is How You Lose Her and it was written by Junot Diaz. This edition of This Is How You Lose Her is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is September 11, 2012 and it has a suggested retail price of $26.95. It was published by Riverhead Books and has 213 pages in the book. The 10 digit ISBN is 1594487367 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781594487361. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.
Junot Diaz made a splash with his debut novel, THE BRIEF AND WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO. With this, his second collection of short stories, Diaz returns to a narrative voice that will be familiar to his readers. Most of the stories in THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER are told in the first person by a young Dominican man known as Yunior. With Diaz's characteristic intelligence and sense of humor, Yunior details his failed attempts at love, along the way revealing much about his family, his attitude toward women, and because of Diaz's ability to hop between the particular and the expansive, much about our contemporary moment.
Publisher Notes
Junot Díaz burst into the literary world with Drown , a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the "eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" ( Newsweek ). His eagerly awaited first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , arrived like a thunderclap, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Now Díaz turns his prodigious talent to the haunting, impossible power of love. The stories in This Is How You Lose Her , by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through - "the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying" - to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care. They teach us the catechism of affections: that the faithlessness of the fathers is visited upon the children; that what we do unto our exes is inevitably done in turn unto us; and that loving thy neighbor as thyself is a commandment more safely honored on platonic than erotic terms. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience, and that ?love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever.?
Industry Reviews
"Raw and honest, these stories pulsate with raspy ghetto hip-hop and the subtler yet more vital echo of the human heart." (starred review)
(06/18/2012)
"[S]harply observed and morally challenging."
(08/15/2012)
"In describing the particulars of one Dominicano's often frustrated attempts to achieve romantic stability, Díaz deploys a universal language of the human condition."
(09/14/2012)
"Diaz banks on the appeal of his characters to balance their less palatable qualities: cruelty, abuse, infidelity. From story to story, he brandishes the force of these voices, almost always to strong effect. This complexity is one of the greatest appeals of Diaz's work."
(09/13/2012)
"His prose style is so irresistible, so sheerly entertaining, it risks blinding readers to its larger offerings. Yet he weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Diaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status."
(09/23/2012)
"[A] miniaturist performance--a modest, musically structured riff that works variations on one main subject: a young Dominican man's womanizing and its emotional fallout."
(09/21/2012)
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Click on this books subject categories to see related titles:
Fiction themes > Literary genres & types of novels > Anthology (single author)
Other Available Formats:
Paperback, 2013
Hardcover, 2013
Compact Disc, 2012
Book Details Summary: The title of this book is This Is How You Lose Her and it was written by Junot Diaz. This edition of This Is How You Lose Her is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is September 11, 2012 and it has a suggested retail price of $26.95. It was published by Riverhead Books and has 213 pages in the book. The 10 digit ISBN is 1594487367 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781594487361. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.
