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Glory and its litany of horrors : a novel
- Title
- Glory and its litany of horrors : a novel / Fernanda Torres ; translated from the Portuguese by Eric M.B. Becker.
- Author
- Torres, Fernanda, 1965-
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 19-490 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Becker, Eric M. B.
- Description
- 223 pages; 19 cm
- Summary
- "As an actor, Mario Cardoso has everything going for him: acclaim, an elevated lifestyle, artistic achievement. His apex will be staging a production of Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear. Everything is going brilliantly until, seeing his co-star dressed as a chicken with a diaper, he breaks down in hysterical laughter, and does so again in each subsequent performance. Mario's troubles worsen when he receives a call reporting that his mother has been found unconscious on a beach in Rio. He abandons Lear and returns to her--and enters a swirl of family drama he'd determined to leave behind. His first shot at recovering his career comes in the guise of a biblical role in an evangelical TV station's production of a soap opera: Sodoma. He has a torrid affair, finds love, and lands a deal with the country's biggest TV network for steady work in soap operas. Mario's new life brings fame and money that theater could never match--but compromises he's made in the past come snarling back to bite him, and his next stage set will be one he never anticipated. With the wicked humor and fleet-footed pace that made her novel The End a runaway bestseller in Brazil and a critical hit in the U.S., Fernanda Torres's Glory and its Litany of Horrors is a wise and funny send-up of a generation that witnessed their ideas of art fall into the hands of the market, and their ideas of the future proven to be as illusory as theater
- Uniform Title
- Glória e seu cortejo de horrores. English
- Alternative Title
- Glória e seu cortejo de horrores.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Adaptations.
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Novels.
- Satirical fiction.
- Note
- "First published in Portuguese as A glória e seu cortejo de horrores by Companhia das Letras Ltda. in 2017"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFC 19-490
- ISBN
- 1632061120
- 9781632061126
- OCLC
- 1060583548
- Author
- Torres, Fernanda, 1965- author.
- Title
- Glory and its litany of horrors : a novel / Fernanda Torres ; translated from the Portuguese by Eric M.B. Becker.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2019.
- Edition
- First Restless books paperback edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Becker, Eric M. B., translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 19-490