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THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER: STORIES
by Diaz, Junot
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 1594487367
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487361
- Seller
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About This Item
New York City, NY: Riverhead Books, 2012. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Riverhead Books, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 213 pages. Retrospective collection of short stories. One of Junot Diaz's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Junot Diaz's "This Is How You Lose Her: Stories". His second collection of short fiction that originally appeared in The New Yorker Magazine and a few other literary magazines. The theme is sexual-cum-romantic love, pun intended, and the anti-hero at the heart of the collection is Yunior, "a Dominican-American stud who, despite his macho exterior, aches to be loved. At first blush, this slim volume lacks the ambition and scope of 'Oscar Wao'. But Diaz has done an extraordinary thing here: He has taken Yunior's heart and battered it every which way to show how love can affect even the most masculine character. The final story, 'The Cheater's Guide To Love', has the collection's stickiest line: 'The half-life of love is forever'. 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" (Kevin Nguyen). An absolute "must-have" title for Junot Diaz collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (shortly after publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Junot Diaz 9.21.12". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed and publication-month dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Copies available online have serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao". Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of the "Twenty Writers For The 21st Century". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JUNOT DIAZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1594487367.
Synopsis
Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’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, Díaz 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 Díaz 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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- Bookseller
- Modern Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22906
- Title
- THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER: STORIES
- Author
- Diaz, Junot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 1594487367
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487361
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 213
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