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Jacket weather : a novel / Mike DeCapite.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First Soft Skull editionDescription: 256 pages; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781593766931
  • 1593766939
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Jacket Weather is told in fragments of narrative, snatches of conversation, and bits of reflection and weather, and set in present-day New York, about June and Mike, who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the '80s and who meet again after twenty years and fall in love. But they're in their fifties when they do, so the book is also about mortality, because all of a sudden it seems like there's barely enough time for them. Besides June and Mike, the book is populated by the old guys Mike talks to at the Y and June's best friend Jane, a sort of fairy godmother who's also a tough old broad from the music business. Jacket Weather collapses ten years of these people telling anecdotes and exchanging recipes and roaming around New York to create an island in time's flow"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction DECAPITE MICHAEL Available 33111010782395
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Mike knew June in New York's downtown music scene in the eighties. Back then, he thought she was 'the living night - all the glamour and potential of a New York night when you're 25.' Now he's twice divorced and happy to be alone - so happy he's writing a book about it. Then he meets June again. Told in fragments of narrative, reveries, recipes, bits of conversation and snatches of weather, the book collapses a decade in Mike and June's life and shifts a reader to a glowing nostalgia for the present.

"Jacket Weather is told in fragments of narrative, snatches of conversation, and bits of reflection and weather, and set in present-day New York, about June and Mike, who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the '80s and who meet again after twenty years and fall in love. But they're in their fifties when they do, so the book is also about mortality, because all of a sudden it seems like there's barely enough time for them. Besides June and Mike, the book is populated by the old guys Mike talks to at the Y and June's best friend Jane, a sort of fairy godmother who's also a tough old broad from the music business. Jacket Weather collapses ten years of these people telling anecdotes and exchanging recipes and roaming around New York to create an island in time's flow"-- Provided by publisher.

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