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What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?
Contributor(s): Antunes, Antonio Lobo (Author), Rabassa, Gregory (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0393329488     ISBN-13: 9780393329483
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $33.25  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2008
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Annotation: The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Alternative History
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2008013189
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.66" W x 8.18" L (1.20 lbs) 608 pages
Features: Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2008 pg. 715
Library Journal 08/15/2008 pg. 70
New York Times Book Review 11/23/2008 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2008 pg. 18
Village Voice Best Books 12/10/2008 pg. 44
 
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Publisher Description:
The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde--a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts--is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos's lover, Rui, a heroin addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of this hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with literary symbolism, and deeply sympathetic in its depiction of society's dregs, Lobo Antunes's novel ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce's Ulysses with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget.

Contributor Bio(s): Rabassa, Gregory: - Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was the recipient of multiple prizes including a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center for contributions to Hispanic literature and a National Medal of Arts. He was the translator of One Hundred Years of Solitude, among other classic works.Lobo Antunes, Antonio: - António Lobo Antunes, born in 1942 in Benfica, is considered to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, he has won many awards and makes his home in Lisbon.
 
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