Author : Gonzalo Torne
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385354037
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Book Synopsis Divorce Is in the Air by : Gonzalo Torne
Download or read book Divorce Is in the Air written by Gonzalo Torne and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American debut of a highly acclaimed Spanish writer: a sly, acerbic novel about love—or the end of love—and how hard it can be to let go. There’s a lot about Joan-Marc that his second wife doesn’t know—and that he now sets out to tell her, come what may. He begins with his disastrous first marriage to an American named Helen, and the vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to save their relationship. From there Joan-Marc unfurls the story of his life, from early memories of adolescence to a reckoning with mortality in his forties: friendships he abandoned, women he wronged, the wide swathe he cut across polite society in Madrid and Barcelona. Joan-Marc may be the kind of man we love to hate, yet his caustic wit, nostalgia, and self-pity are ultimately as winning as they are devastating. Here is an audacious new voice, an unapologetic portrait of an antihero navigating the perilous shoals of modern life—a man struggling with long-held illusions about the inexorable forward march of time.