Glory and its litany of horrors : a novel / Fernanda Torres ; translated from the Portuguese by Eric M.B. Becker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torres, Fernanda, 1965- author.

Contributor:

Becker, Eric M. B., translator.

Standardized Title:

Glória e seu cortejo de horrores. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear--Fiction.

Shakespeare, William.

King Lear (Shakespeare, William).

Actors--Brazil--Fiction.

Actors.

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

Manners and customs.

Brazil.

Brazil--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Brazilian fiction -- Translations into English.

Adaptations.

Humorous fiction.

Novels.

Satirical literature.

Physical Description:

223 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First Restless books paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2019.

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

Notes:

"First published in Portuguese as A glória e seu cortejo de horrores by Companhia das Letras Ltda. in 2017"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

1632061120

9781632061126

OCLC:

1060583548