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Why, why, why? : stories
- Title
- Why, why, why? : stories / Quim Monzó ; translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush.
- Author
- Monzó, Quim, 1952-
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, [2019]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bush, Peter R., 1946-
- Description
- 119 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A man tries to teach a stone to speak through sheer force of will. An engaged couple makes a pact to never lie, and their union dissolves immediately. Over the course of a phone call, a man learns that his girlfriend died months ago, and that he's been unknowingly seeing her twin sister. Prince Charming marries Cinderella, but then has an affair with the evil stepsisters. A psychopath's liver explodes after a night of heavy drinking, but instead of killing him, it allows him to be a better drinker. These, and many more strange and twisted characters populate the pages of Why, Why, Why?, a delectable brew of dark humor and biting satire on human relationships."--
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Translations.
- Note
- Originally published in Catalan as "El perqué de tot plegat" by Quaderns Crema, 1993.
- Language (note)
- Translated from Catalan.
- Contents
- Honesty -- Love -- Married life -- Submission -- The menstrual cycle -- Clueless -- Faith -- Pygmalion -- Immolation -- Knowledge -- The decision -- Admiration -- Why do the hands of a clock turn the way the hands of a clock do? -- Jealousy -- Hand on heart -- Instability -- St. Valentine's -- Trojan euphoria -- Half-twelvish -- The urge for self-improvement -- The Hippocratic oath -- Mycology -- The toad -- The sleeping beauty -- The monarchy -- Fauna -- Strength of will -- Physiognomies -- Divine providence -- The story.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1604
- ISBN
- 9781948830041
- 1948830043
- LCCN
- 2019946440
- OCLC
- 1121596973
- Author
- Monzó, Quim, 1952- author.
- Title
- Why, why, why? : stories / Quim Monzó ; translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush.
- Publisher
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from Catalan.
- Added Author
- Bush, Peter R., 1946- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1604