The art of wearing a trench coat : stories
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Author
Contributors
West, Adrian Nathan, translator.
Published
New York : Other Press, [2021].
Format
Book
ISBN
9781635420784 (PAP), 1635420784 (PAP)
Physical Desc
121 pages ; 21 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction | FICTION PAMIES | Available |
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Published
New York : Other Press, [2021].
Language
English
ISBN
9781635420784 (PAP), 1635420784 (PAP)
Notes
General Note
Originally published in Catalan as L'art de portar gavardina in 2018 by Quaderns Crema, Barcelona.
Description
"A baker's dozen of short stories that hinge on three types of love: between couples, and toward one's parents and one's children. This slim, intimate volume of thirteen stories explores paternal, filial, and spousal love (and disappointment, and nostalgia, and panic) through a narrator who bemoans his inability to wear a trench coat well, and who finally accuses himself of being "pusillanimous." Yet in these encounters and these endings, in these details and these feelings, a compassionate, small portrait of a life emerges. Terse, droll, sometimes absurd but always lucid, Pàmies casts his gaze on the urge to write as seen through his mother's final days; on his teenage fantasy that his father was actually Jorge Sempraun; and on situations such as adopting a dog to staunch a failing marriage, or a father asked to play the part of a corpse in his son's short film. In this phantasmagoria of failure and loss, Pàmies confronts us-drawing us in with his use of the second person address-with the omnipresenceof well-intentioned lies despite which it may be impossible to ever make anyone else happy"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pàmies, S., & West, A. N. (2021). The art of wearing a trench coat: stories . Other Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pàmies, Sergi, 1960- and Adrian Nathan, West. 2021. The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat: Stories. Other Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pàmies, Sergi, 1960- and Adrian Nathan, West. The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat: Stories Other Press, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pàmies, Sergi, and Adrian Nathan West. The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat: Stories Other Press, 2021.
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