The art of wearing a trench coat : stories /
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 wh...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Other Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Catalan as L'art de portar gavardina in 2018 by Quaderns Crema, Barcelona. |
| Physical Description: | 121 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781635420784 1635420784 |