{"product_id":"the-art-of-wearing-a-trench-coat-stories-9781635420784","title":"The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA baker's dozen of intertwined stories that brilliantly evoke the ups and downs of relationships between strangers, spouses, parents, and children. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Terse, droll, sometimes absurd but always lucid, P mies 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 Sempr n; and on situations such as adopting a dog to staunch a failing marriage, or a father asked to play the part of a corpse in his son's short film. In this phantasmagoria of failure and loss, P mies confronts us--pulling us in with his use of the second person--with the omnipresence of well-intentioned lies without which it might be impossible to ever make anyone else happy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635420784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128","brand":"Sergi P\u0026#224;mies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38521626198197,"sku":"9781635420784","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fb6b1565-4911-4c19-a936-e431f71115fc.jpg?v=1613486642","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-art-of-wearing-a-trench-coat-stories-9781635420784","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}