TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zambra,Alejandro
AU  - McDowell,Megan
TI  - Chilean poet: a novel 
SN  - 9780593492505
PY  - 2022///
CY  - [New York, New York]
PB  - Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
KW  - Poets, Chilean
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Stepfamilies
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - "Originally published in Spain as Poeta Chileno by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, in 2020. ... Copyright © 2020 by Alejandro Zambra. Translation copyright © 2022 by Megan McDowell." -- Verso
N2  - "The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and the many forms of family"--; Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family--a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. After a few years, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions, but traces of Gonzalo remain: Vicente inherits his love of poetry. When, at eighteen, he meets Pru, an American journalist literally and figuratively lost in Santiago, he encourages her to write about Chilean poets--not the famous, dead kind, your Nerudas or Mistrals or Bolaos, but rather the living, everyday poets, who are also a kind of family. By the time Pru's article is published, Gonzalo has returned to Chile. But will he and Vicente find their way back to one another?
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