This is an auction for THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER by Junot Diaz.

"This Is How You Lose Her features nine stories by Junot Diaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in 2008. At the centre of each story is Yunior (making his third appearance in Diaz's work), a Dominican American stud who, despite his macho exterior, aches to be loved. At first blush, this volume lacks the ambition and scope of Oscar Wao, a condensed pop-culture epic. But Diaz has done an extraordinary thing here: he has taken Yunior's heart and battered it every which way to show how love--romantic, physical, or familial--can affect even the most masculine character. Diaz compares heartbreak to radiation, its strength decaying exponentially over time. You can bury it underground and try to forget about it, but it never goes away entirely."

• Amazon.com Best Books of the Month, September 2012

“Díaz’s third book is as stunning as its predecessors. These stories are hard and sad, but in Díaz’s hands they crackle.”

• a *** starred *** review in Library Journal (US)

"Díaz’s fiction remains pinpoint, sinuous, gutsy, and imaginative. Each taut tale of unrequited and betrayed love and family crises is electric with passionate observations and off-the-charts emotional and social intelligence. Díaz’s stories are fast-paced, unflinching, complexly funny, street-talking tough, perfectly made, and deeply sensitive. They tell of precarious, unappreciated, precious lives in which intimacy is a lost art, masculinity a parody, and kindness, reason, and hope struggle to survive like seedlings in a war zone.”

• a *** starred *** review in Booklist (US)

Paperback 2012.

213 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Wellington following the auction.

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