Research Catalog
This is how you lose her
- Title
- This is how you lose her / Junot Diaz.
- Author
- Diaz, Junot, 1968-
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFD 12-6002 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 213 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
- On a beach in Santo Domingo, 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 Her 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 live is forever."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Short stories, American
- Romance fiction.
- Fiction.
- Awards (note)
- National Book Awards Finalist, 2012.
- Story Prize Finalist, 2012.
- Listen Up Special Recognition Author-Read, 2012.
- Listen Up Editor's Choice Audiobook of the year, 2012.
- New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award, 2013.
- Story Prize Finalist 2013.
- Andrew Carnegie Medals For Excellence Finalist, 2013.
- ALA Notable Books, 2013.
- Contents
- The sun, the moon, the stars -- Nilda -- Alma -- Otravida, Otravez -- Flaca -- The pura principle -- Invierno -- Miss Lora -- The cheater's guide to love.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-6002
- ISBN
- 9781594487361
- 1594487367
- 9781594486425
- 1594486425
- LCCN
- 2012024051
- OCLC
- 796081934
- Author
- Diaz, Junot, 1968-
- Title
- This is how you lose her / Junot Diaz.
- Imprint
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
- Awards
- National Book Awards Finalist, 2012.Story Prize Finalist, 2012.Listen Up Special Recognition Author-Read, 2012.Listen Up Editor's Choice Audiobook of the year, 2012.New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award, 2013.Story Prize Finalist 2013.Andrew Carnegie Medals For Excellence Finalist, 2013.ALA Notable Books, 2013.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-6002