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Divorce is in the air
- Title
- Divorce is in the air / Gonzalo Torné ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.
- Author
- Torné, Gonzalo, 1976-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-10950 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McDowell, Megan
- Description
- 301 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know -- but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate romance. The recollection of this il--fated trip triggers in him a series of flashbacks through which he narrates his life story, hopscotching between Barcelona and Madrid. Starting from pivotal moments in his childhood -- his earliest sexual encounters, his father's suicide, his mother's emotional decline--he moves through the years to the origin of his relationship with Helen and the circumstances surrounding its deterioration. The result is a provocative exploration of memory, nostalgia, romance, the ways in which the past takes hold-- a powerful portrait of a man struggling with his illusions about life and love"--
- Uniform Title
- Divorcio en el aire. English
- Alternative Title
- Divorcio en el aire.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-10950
- ISBN
- 9780385354028
- 0385354029
- LCCN
- 2016012762
- OCLC
- 2016012762
- Author
- Torné, Gonzalo, 1976- author.
- Title
- Divorce is in the air / Gonzalo Torné ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- McDowell, Megan, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Torné de la Guardia, Gonzalo, 1976- Divorce is in the air First edition. New York, New York : Knopf, 2016 9780385354035 (DLC) 2016022496
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-10950