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The taker, and other stories / Rubem Fonseca ; translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers.
- Title
- The taker, and other stories / Rubem Fonseca ; translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers.
- Author
- Fonseca, Rubem
- Publication
- Rochester, N.Y. : Open Letter, 2008
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PQ9698.16.O46 T35 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Landers, Clifford E.
- Description
- 166 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- From the Publisher: "The Taker and Other Stories is Rubem Fonseca's first collection to appear in English translation, and it ranges across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of the modern landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, a city whose disparities-in wealth, social standing, and prestige-are untenable. In the stories of The Taker, rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order, and violence and deception are essential tools of survival." Whether recounting the story of a businessman who runs over pedestrians to let off steam, a serial killer being pushed to ever greater crimes by his bourgeois lover, the desperate poor rushing to butcher a cow that has been killed in a traffic accident, or a man seeking out confirmation for a past that his friends deny, Fonseca repeatedly reaffirms his status as one of the purest storytellers on the contemporary Brazilian literary scene.
- Subject
- Short stories, Brazilian
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Night drive -- Taker -- Betsy -- Angels of the marquees -- Enemy -- Account of the incident -- Pride -- Notebook -- Eleventh of May -- Book of panegyrics -- Trials of a young writer -- Other -- Happy New Year -- Dwarf -- Flesh and the bones.
- ISBN
- 193482402X
- 9781934824023
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library