MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 02769cam a2200433 i 4500
001 13888366
005 20190524100751.0
008 181004s2019 nyu 000 1 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)on1042402318
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dOCLCO$dORX$dMLY$dLNC$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dYDX
020 $a9780811227322$qpaperback$qacid-free paper
020 $a0811227324$qpaperback$qacid-free paper
035 $a(OCoLC)1042402318
041 1 $aeng$hspa
042 $apcc
043 $ae-sp---
050 00 $aPQ6672.I37$bM3313 2019
082 00 $a863/.64$223
100 1 $aVila-Matas, Enrique,$d1948-$eauthor.
240 10 $aMac y su contratiempo.$lEnglish
245 10 $aMac's problem :$ba novel /$cEnrique Vila-Matas ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie Hughes.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew Directions Books,$c[2019]
300 $a211 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"A New Directions paperbook original" -- title page.
520 $aMac is currently unemployed and 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 neighbor, a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic, willfully obscure stories. Mac decides that, while he will not write his own stories, he will read, revise, and improve his neighbor's, which are mostly narrated by a ventriloquist who has lost the ability to speak in different voices. As Mac embarks on this task, he finds that the stories have a strange way of imitating life. Or is life imitating the stories? As the novel progresses, Mac becomes stranger and more adrift from reality, and both he and we become ever more immersed in literature: a literature haunted by death, but alive with the sheer pleasure of writing.
650 0 $aAuthors$vFiction.
651 0 $aBarcelona (Spain)$vFiction.
650 7 $aAuthors.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00821688
651 7 $aSpain$zBarcelona.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204531
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
700 1 $aCosta, Margaret Jull,$etranslator.
700 1 $aHughes, Sophie$q(Sophie Elizabeth),$d1986-$etranslator.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aVila-Matas, Enrique, 1948- author.$tMac's problem$dNew York : New Directions Books, 2019$z9780811227339$w(DLC) 2018048345
852 00 $bglx$hPQ6672.I37$iM3313 2019