Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs
- Authors
- Wolff, Lina
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Tags
- stories , araceli , spanish , swedish , granta travel issue , många människor dör som du , pedro almodóvar , junot diaz , blosom , lina wolff , bret easton ellis and the other dogs , romance , paco parra , barcelona , love , jorge borges , visit from the goon squad , many people die like you , charles bukowski , dogs , spain , dave eggers , students , bret easton ellis och de andra hundarna , servants , bret easton ellis , colm toibin , bolano , teachers , fiction , jennifer egan , translation , sweden , translated fiction , alba cambó
- Date
- 2012-07-20T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.52 MB
- Lang
- en
Losing her son in a lorry accident, a woman abandons her lover and her life on the Mexican border and becomes a domestic servant in Madrid; following an awkward ménage-à-trois, a timber agent is blackmailed into introducing his lover's boyfriend to his best client; a depressed, misfit French teacher rejects the overtures of students and would-be lovers; all the while sharp-eyed young Araceli watches over everything from her decrepit apartment.
Nesting stories within stories, setting Bret Easton Ellis among his fellow mutts and enigmatic, love-hungry, dying Alba Cambó among her several lovers, Lina Wolff can really throw her readers a sucker punch.
Upstairs/downstairs distinctions blur as Wolff's adroit and subtle novel turns the tables, allowing servants and subordinates to dominate their masters. With a Bolaño-esque humor Wolff asks, what chance does love have in this dog-eat-dog world?