{"product_id":"the-art-of-wearing-a-trench-coat-stories-paperback","title":"The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSergi Pàmies\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdrian Nathan West\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Translation of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA baker's dozen of intertwined stories that brilliantly evoke the ups and downs of relationships between strangers, spouses, parents, and children.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on the author's own experiences, this slim, intimate collection of thirteen stories explores myriad forms of love (and disappointment and nostalgia and panic) through a narrator who bemoans his inability to wear a trench coat well, like Humphrey Bogart and the other elegant men his mother taught him to admire. In these encounters and these endings, in these details and these feelings, a compassionate portrait of a life emerges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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--pulling us in with his use of the second person--with the omnipresence of well-intentioned lies without which it might be impossible to ever make anyone else happy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSergi Pàmies\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Paris to a family of Spanish political refugees. He moved to Barcelona in 1971 and went on to work as a translator, journalist, television and radio presenter, and writer, for which he has received several awards. He is the father of two children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrian Nathan West\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and literary critic based in Spain. He has translated more than twenty books, among them Rainald Goetz's \u003ci\u003eInsane\u003c\/i\u003e and Sibylle Lacan's \u003ci\u003eA Father: Puzzle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768686739744,"sku":"9781635420784","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1ef5a3d7ce207b412397ade49e756333.webp?v=1780335247","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-art-of-wearing-a-trench-coat-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}