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02765aam a2200433 i 4500 001 6124DFD0875711E9A56C064497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190605010028 008 181004s2019 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2018047704 020 $a 0811227324 020 $a 9780811227322 035 $a (OCoLC)1042402318 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d ORX $d MLY $d LNC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-sp--- 050 00 $a PQ6672.I37 $b M3313 2019 082 00 $a 863/.64 $2 23 100 1 $a Vila-Matas, Enrique, $d 1948- $e author. 240 10 $a Mac y su contratiempo. $l English 245 10 $a Mac's problem : $b a novel / $c Enrique Vila-Matas ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie Hughes. 264 1 $a New York : $b New Directions Books, $c [2019] 300 $a 211 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "A New Directions paperbook original" -- title page. 520 $a Mac 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 $a Authors $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Barcelona (Spain) $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821688 651 7 $a Spain $z Barcelona. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204531 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 700 1 $a Costa, Margaret Jull, $e translator. 700 1 $a Hughes, Sophie $q (Sophie Elizabeth), $d 1986- $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Vila-Matas, Enrique, 1948- author. $t Mac's problem $d New York : New Directions Books, 2019 $z 9780811227339 $w (DLC) 2018048345 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025705.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905042727.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6124DFD0875711E9A56C064497128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search