Divorce is in the air
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Knopf, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 301 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385354028
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
McDowell, Megan.
SUBJECTS
Divorced men -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
Hallucinations and illusions -- Fiction.
Barcelona (Spain) -- Fiction.
Madrid (Spain) -- Fiction.
Love stories.
Psychological fiction.