What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?

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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.

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Library Journal (08/15/2008)
This ambitious epic novel about the life and loves of a Lisbon drag queen is also a page-turner, but only in the sense that one must constantly refer to the provided Dramatis Personae to keep the characters straight. Lobo Antunes ("The Return of the Caravels") is that rare contemporary writer who treats the page as a canvas; his prose is rich in lyrical and psychological detail and filled with repeated phrases and enigmatic symbolsa jackdaw, a mastiff with a bow, the figure of a dwarf from "Snow White" atop a refrigeratorthat evoke memories or dreams. While most of the novel is narrated by Paulo, son of the drag queen Carlos (based on a real Lisbon transvestite, Ruth Bryden, who died in 1999), the occasional passages related by other narrators are written in the same unique style, which makes it difficult to tell them apart. This is a fine introduction to the work of a highly rewarding author but may require a commitment of several months to digest. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.Forest Turner, Suffolk Cty. House of Correction Lib., Boston Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

ISBN: 0393329488 | EAN: 9780393329483
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company  | Publication Date: August, 2008

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