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This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Díaz

Hardcover | Pages: 217 pages

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Original Title:	This is How You Lose Her
ISBN:	1594487367 (ISBN13: 9781594487361)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Yunior de Las Casas
Literary Awards:	OCM Bocas Prize Nominee (2013), The Story Prize Nominee (2012), NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2013), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2013), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2012) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012), The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for 'Miss Lora' (2013)

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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 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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Title	:	This Is How You Lose Her
Author	:	Junot Díaz
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 217 pages
Published	:	September 11th 2012 by Riverhead Books (first published March 22nd 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories

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I'm a big fan of Junot. I own all 3 of his books and love when he has a story featured in The New Yorker (which is how I discovered him, many moons ago, in high school). "This Is How You Lose Her" is another winner. Diaz has a way with words, that much is certain. Each story has it's own little gem and specialness to it. This book is comprised of 9 short stories, most of them intertwined, linking the main character, Yunior, with his dealings with women, his dickhead brother, Rafa, who is

a.k.a The Various Sexcapades of Yunior and Other Dominican Men.I can praise this. I can even say that it shows you a more accurate representation of what love is than a hell lot of books out there. But I won't. Yunior, so funny and eloquent in Oscar Wao, is only amusing at best here. From start to end, it's just an unemotional, cold, and distant narration of who he fucked and who he cheated on and what he did to win them back - only to lapse back into the habit like gamblers and alcoholics.There

I sometimes wish there were half stars because I want to give this book a 3.5. The story Otravida, Otravez, is magnificent. More elsewhere.

Released September 11, I heard a a lot of hype for this book by Junot Diaz. I wanted to see--what is all the fuss about? Why did this jump to the top of the NY Bestseller List? I think I can tell you. In my best bookish librarian voice: the writing is raw. Eye-opening. It shifts between several different love stories, some unrequited, some failed...some still standing. I felt as if the narrator was sitting with me on the stoop of some NY slum, telling me about this girlfriend. Or this story that

My friends sometimes ask me why I dont read more contemporary fiction, and my reaction to this book is a good illustration of the reason. On a purely superficial level, I dont like the style. Díazs prose is punchy and energetic; but its energy reminds me of how CGI is abused in contemporary filmsan added dose of color and dazzle that attempts to make up for a lack of substance. I felt as though he was constantly trying to maintain my attention, with a punchline, a striking image, a vulgarity,

This is a collection of short stories about Yunior. Yunior is a louse. All the men in his life are serial cheaters from his father to his brother to his best friend. Yes, there is a pitch that this is part of the Dominican Culture -- but frankly I can speak with women friends of mine from France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Germany and England and every single one of them knows this guy or has dated this clown. He screws around on women, and when he is caught and discarded there is great chest

Voice, voice, voice. What a treasure. This slim volume of nine short stories, about the battlefield of love. There's cheating. And searching. Being with one you don't want. Yearning for the one you want. Watching parents struggle with their own disappointments. Several of the stories feature Yunior, a young Dominican man--sometimes boy--struggling to live up to male culture while at the same time trying to find what's true to himself--while his brother Rafa is a pure heat-seeking missile of sex.