The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat : Stories

✍ Scribed by Sergi Pàmies; Adrian Nathan West

• Book ID: 110645574
• Publisher: Other Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 395 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781635420791

✦ Synopsis

**World Literature Today : Notable Translation of the Year
A baker's dozen of intertwined stories that brilliantly evoke the ups and downs of relationships between strangers, spouses, parents, and children. **

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.

Terse, droll, sometimes absurd but always lucid, Pamies 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 Semprun; and on situations such as adopting a dog to staunch a failing...