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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393061981

ISBN-139780393061987

eBay Product ID (ePID)66593879

Product Key Features

Book TitleFat Man and Infinity : and Other Writings

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEuropean / Spanish & Portuguese, General, Literary

Publication Year2009

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAntonio Lobo Antunes

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-041551

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsThe personal essays and reminiscences of Antnio Lobo Antunes, happily gathered here, provide not only glimpses into Portuguese life but also passages that lead to the heart of experience itself. His descriptive quickness and his genius for metaphor cause the line between prose and poetry to vanish before our astonished eyes., Lobo Antunes' sketches are alive with the poetry of the everyday, and tinged with the gentlest of self-mockery., The personal essays and reminiscences of António Lobo Antunes, happily gathered here, provide not only glimpses into Portuguese life but also passages that lead to the heart of experience itself. His descriptive quickness and his genius for metaphor cause the line between prose and poetry to vanish before our astonished eyes., Lobo Antunes' sketches are alive with the poetry of the everyday, and tinged with the gentlest of self-mockery. -J M Coetzee

Dewey Decimal869.4/42

SynopsisA lyrical, searing work of autobiography, reflection, and fiction, evoking García Márquez's memoirs and Pamuk's Istanbul. António Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity , "the heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood--the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in midcentury. His Proust-like memoirs, written over thirty years in chronicle form, pass through the filter of an adult who has known war and pain, and bear witness to the people whom he loved and who have gone into the dark. Stunningly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, in prose that glides like poetry, this is a modern-day chronicle of Portugal's imperfect past and arresting present, seen through the eyes of a master fiction writer, one on a short list to win a Nobel Prize. Readers particularly touched by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes will be drawn to this journey into the heart of one of our greatest living writers., Antonio Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, "the heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in midcentury. His Proust-like memoirs, written over thirty years in chronicle form, pass through the filter of an adult who has known war and pain, and bear witness to the people whom he loved and who have gone into the dark. Stunningly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, in prose that glides like poetry, this is a modern-day chronicle of Portugal's imperfect past and arresting present, seen through the eyes of a master fiction writer, one on a short list to win a Nobel Prize. Readers particularly touched by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes will be drawn to this journey into the heart of one of our greatest living writers.", António Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity , "the heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood--the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in midcentury. His Proust-like memoirs, written over thirty years in chronicle form, pass through the filter of an adult who has known war and pain, and bear witness to the people whom he loved and who have gone into the dark. Stunningly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, in prose that glides like poetry, this is a modern-day chronicle of Portugal's imperfect past and arresting present, seen through the eyes of a master fiction writer, one on a short list to win a Nobel Prize. Readers particularly touched by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes will be drawn to this journey into the heart of one of our greatest living writers., A lyrical, searing work of autobiography, reflection, and fiction, evoking García Márquez's memoirs and Pamuk's Istanbul.

LC Classification NumberPQ9263.N77L5813 2009