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001			on1160036280
003			OCoLC
007			ta
008			210423s2021 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2020029876
020			_a9781635420784 (paperback)
020			_a1635420784 (paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1160036280 _z(OCoLC)1235776577
041	1		_aeng
090			_aFic _b.P185L37W47 2021
100	1		_aPamies, Sergi, _d1960-
245	1	4	_aThe art of wearing a trench coat : _bstories / _cSergi Pàmies ; translated from the Catalan by Adrian Nathan West.
260			_aNew York : _bOther Press, _cc2021.
300			_a121 p.
500			_aOriginally published in Catalan as L'art de portar gavardina in 2018.
520			_a"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 Semprún; 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 omnipresence of well-intentioned lies despite which it may be impossible to ever make anyone else happy"--
700	1		_aWest, Adrian Nathan.
740	0		_aL'art de portar gavardina
942			_2local _cBK
999			_c2520 _d2520