This is how you lose her / Junot Díaz.
2012
PS3554.I259 T48 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
This is how you lose her / Junot Díaz.
Author
Díaz, Junot, 1968-
ISBN
9781594487361 (hardcover)
1594487367 (hardcover)
9781594486425
1594486425
1594487367 (hardcover)
9781594486425
1594486425
Imprint
New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
Language
English
Description
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PS3554.I259 T48 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
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."
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."
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Table of Contents
The sun, the moon, the stars
Nilda
Alma
Otravida, Otravez
Flaca
The pura principle
Invierno
Miss Lora
The cheater's guide to love.
Nilda
Alma
Otravida, Otravez
Flaca
The pura principle
Invierno
Miss Lora
The cheater's guide to love.