| Edition |
First Restless books paperback edition. |
| Description |
223 pages ; 19 cm |
| Note |
"First published in Portuguese as A glória e seu cortejo de horrores by Companhia das Letras Ltda. in 2017"--Title page verso. |
| 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 |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear -- Fiction.
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Actors -- Brazil -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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King Lear (Shakespeare, William) (OCoLC)fst01356322
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Actors. (OCoLC)fst00796296
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Life change events. (OCoLC)fst00998231
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Brazil. (OCoLC)fst01206830
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01423910
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Humorous fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726649
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Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Satirical fiction. (OCoLC)fst02007227
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Humorous fiction.
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Satirical fiction.
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Novels.
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Adaptations.
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| Added Author |
Becker, Eric M. B., translator.
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| Added Title |
Glória e seu cortejo de horrores. English
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| ISBN |
1632061120 (paperback) |
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9781632061126 (paperback) |
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