THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Riverhead Books, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. sIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY THE pULITZER pRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF the brief, wondrous life of oscar wao. The stories inThis Is THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, by turns hilarious and devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weaknesses of our all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new passion, the recklessness with which we betray what we most treasure, and the torture we go through - "the begging, the crawling over glass, the crying" - to try to mend what we've broken beyond repair. They recall the echoes that intimacy leaves behind, even where we thought we did not care. They teach us the catechism of affections: that the faithlessness of the fathers is visited upon the children; that what we do unto our exes is inevitably done in turn unto us; and that loving thy neighbor as thyself is a commandment more safely honored on platonic than erotic terms. Most of all, these stories remind us that the habit of passion always triumphs over experience, and that "love, when it hits us for real, has a half-life of forever." .THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER WAS NOMINATED FOR THE nATIONAL bOOK aWARD FOR fICTION. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, Signed by author on title pagemylar-protected dust cover, [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] OFC 1R