{"product_id":"glory-and-its-litany-of-horrors-paperback","title":"Glory and Its Litany of Horrors - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFernanda Torres\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEric M. B. Becker\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Fernanda Torres, the celebrated Brazilian actress and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe End\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a riotous tragicomedy of a famed actor's path from national sex symbol to cult icon to raving madman after a disastrous performance as King Lear.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMario Cardoso's meteoric rise to fame begins in the early sixties, when the promise of sex and revolution permeates the Rio air. But as he conquers the stage, arthouse cinema, and primetime TV, the fever and the decadence of stardom take their toll, and middle-aged Mario finds himself with an ebbing reputation, hairline, and bank account. He needs a royal comeback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e. Mario's turn as Shakespeare's mad monarch goes well until he's overtaken by a fit of laughter that gets more demented with each performance. Forced to cancel the show, he's confronted with his mother's unstaged madness--she's now convinced that Mario is in fact her long-departed husband. Broke and desperate, Mario signs on for an evangelical network production: \u003ci\u003eSodoma\u003c\/i\u003e. Yet, as low as he's fallen, Mario's final set is one he never imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the wicked humor and fleet-footed pace that made her novel \u003ci\u003eThe End\u003c\/i\u003e a runaway bestseller in Brazil, Fernanda Torres's \u003ci\u003eGlory and its Litany of Horrors\u003c\/i\u003e is a razor-sharp take on the uneasy marriage of Art and the marketplace, and on the profession of acting in all its horror and glory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFernanda Torres \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro. The daughter of actors, she was raised backstage. Fernanda has built a solid career as an actress and dedicated herself equally to film, theater, and TV since she was 13 years old, and has received many awards, including Best Actress at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Over the last twenty years, she has written and collaborated on film scripts and adaptations for theater. She began to write regularly for newspapers and magazines in 2007 and is now a columnist for the newspaper \u003ci\u003eFolha de São Paulo\u003c\/i\u003e and the magazine \u003ci\u003eVeja-Rio\u003c\/i\u003e and contributes to the magazine \u003ci\u003ePiauí\u003c\/i\u003e. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe End\u003c\/i\u003e, has sold more than 200,000 copies in Brazil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric M. B. Becker\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, literary translator, and editor of Words without Borders. He is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, and the Louis Armstrong House Museum. In 2014, he earned a PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of a collection of short stories from the Portuguese by Neustadt Prize for International Literature winner and 2015 Man Booker International Finalist Mia Couto (due out in early 2019 from Biblioasis). He has also published translations of numerous writers from Brazil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa, including, Noemi Jaffe, Elvira Vigna, Paulo Scott, Martha Batalha, Paulo Coelho, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Current book projects include work by Djaimila Pereira de Almeida, Alice Sant'Anna, Fernanda Torres, and Lygia Fagundes Telles (NEA Fellowship 2019), among others. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Literary Hub, Freeman's, and Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, among other publications. He has served on the juries of the ALTA National Translation Award and the PEN Translation Prize.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770463584544,"sku":"9781632061126","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ca1e02c10db7f08944ca1697394efd3d.webp?v=1780372215","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/glory-and-its-litany-of-horrors-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}