When I Was Mortal
$37.89
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
22 May 2013
Summary
A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour.
A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom… these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories.
Ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141389264 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141389265 |
| Author: | Javier Marías |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 22 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 137g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Javier Marías
Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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