Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz's first book, "Drown," established
him as a major new writer with "the dispassionate eye of a
journalist and the tongue of a poet" ("Newsweek"). His first novel,
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," was named #1 Fiction Book
of the Year" by "Time" magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on
the "New York Times" bestseller list, establishing itself - with
more than a million copies in print - as a modern classic. In
addition to the Pulitzer, Diaz has won a host of major awards and
prizes, including the National Book Critic's Circle Award, the
PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, the Dayton Literary
Peace Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Award. Now Diaz turns his
remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love -
obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. On a
beach in the Dominican Republic, 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 the "New
York Times"-Bestselling "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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