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This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz
Riverhead Hardcover
September 2012
On Sale: September 11, 2012
224 pages
ISBN: 1594487367
EAN: 9781594487361
Kindle: B0085DOG2W
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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.”
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