This Is How You Lose Her Deluxe Edition [Hardcover]

A must-have collector's edition of Junot Díaz’s bestseller and National Book Award finalist, brilliantly illustrated by celebrated comic artist Jaime Hernandez

A majorNew York Timesbestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award,This Is How You Lose Heris Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s celebration of love in all its facets—obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. For this gorgeous new edition, Jaime Hernandez—deemed “one of the twentieth century’s most significant comic creators”—has crafted stunning full-page illustrations, one for each story, that brilliantly capture the love-haunted spirit of the book and of the gutsy women whom irrepressible, irresistible Yunior loves and loses. A true work of art, inside and out, this is a keepsake that fans will treasure and new readers will delight in discovering.Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award
Winner of the Sunday Times Short Story Award
A TimeandPeopleTop 10 Book of 2012
Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize
Chosen as a notable or best book of the year byThe New York Times,Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times,Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... 

“Junot Díaz writes in an idiom so electrifying and distinct it’s practically an act of aggression, at once enthralling, even eroticin its assertion of sudden intimacy… [It is] a syncopated swagger-step between opacity and transparency, exclusion and inclusion, defiance and desire…His prose style is so irresistible, so sheerly entertaining, it risks blinding readers to its larger offerings. Yet he weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Díaz subject: what it mealƒ$