Good-Bye Angel : Honest Cheats Play Dirty Games Clean

Brandao, Ignacio De Loyola; Landers, Clifford E. (TRN)

ISBN 10: 1564785947 / ISBN 13: 9781564785947

Editore: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011

Codice articolo 9266283-n

Riassunto:

There are no heroes in Igna´cio de Loyola Branda~os world, only victims: not only of violence, but of deceit, desire, and fear. In The Good-Bye Angel, Branda~o returns to his great subject: the tyranny of the community versus the individual, the city versus its inhabitants. Large enough to develop its own mythology, yet small enough to be provincial and petty, the city of Arealva (standing in for Brazil, and the world at large) is itself a character in Branda~os latest novel, toying with and finally consuming its citizens with the innocent cruelty of a cat with its preyits nothing personal, but it needs the meat. A cross between a film noir and a Greek tragedy, with more than its share of sex and drugs (though no rock n roll), The Good-Bye Angel begins with a murder and ends in a panorama of ambition, obsession, libido, hypocrisy, and loneliness.

L'autore: Ignacio de Loyola Brandao began his career writing film reviews and went on to work for one of the principal newspapers in Sao Paulo. Initially banned in Brazil, his novel ZERO went on to win the prestigious Brasilia Prize and become a controversial bestseller.

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Titolo: Good-Bye Angel : Honest Cheats Play Dirty ...
Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New