Mac and His Problem
Author: Vila-Matas, Enrique
ISBN: 9780143788454
Publisher: ADULT LOCAL VINTAGE - MASS MKT
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A funny, erudite novel from one of the great European storytellers, with the process of writing and creation playfully at its heart.
Mac, over sixty and recently unemployed, lives on his wife's earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac's wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression-but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary will not turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a near neighbour, a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic, wilfully obscure stories....
ISBN: 9780143788454
Publisher: ADULT LOCAL VINTAGE - MASS MKT
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A funny, erudite novel from one of the great European storytellers, with the process of writing and creation playfully at its heart.
Mac, over sixty and recently unemployed, lives on his wife's earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac's wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression-but Mac persists, and is determined that this diary will not turn into a novel. However, one day, he has a chance encounter with a near neighbour, a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic, wilfully obscure stories....
