Mac and His Problem
Author | : Enrique Vila-Matas |
Publisher | : Random House Australia |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780143788461 |
ISBN-13 | : 0143788469 |
Rating | : 4/5 (469 Downloads) |
Download or read book Mac and His Problem written by Enrique Vila-Matas and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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....