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Genre/Form: | Short stories, American Short stories Love stories Romance fiction Fiction Romans (teksten) |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Junot Díaz |
ISBN: | 9781594487361 1594487367 9781594486425 1594486425 9781594631771 1594631778 9781611761108 1611761107 |
OCLC Number: | 796081934 |
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. |
Description: | 213 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The sun, the moon, the stars -- Nilda -- Alma -- Otravida, Otravez -- Flaca -- The pura principle -- Invierno -- Miss Lora -- The cheater's guide to love. |
Responsibility: | Junot Díaz. |
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Abstract:
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 love is forever."

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