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- Book Title
- End
- Publication Name
- The End
- Title
- The End
- Translator
- Alison Entrekin
- Contributor
- Alison Entrekin (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 163206121X
- EAN
- 9781632061218
- ISBN
- 9781632061218
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 24/08/2017
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 7.1in
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Topic
- Hispanic & Latino, General
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 8.5 Oz
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Product Information
In this deadly-funny debut novel by renowned Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, five macho friends in Rio's Copacabana reflect on their hedonistic glory days--now supplanted by the indignities of aging--in what turn out to be their final moments. With uncanny insight into the less virtuous corners of the male psyche, Fernanda Torres brings us five friends who once milked the high life of Rio's Bossa Nova age and are now left with memories--parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions--and the grim realities of getting old. lvaro lives alone and bemoans the evils of his ex-wife. S lvio can't give up the excesses of sex and drugs. Ribeiro is a vain, Viagra-abusing beach bum. Neto is the square, a faithful husband until the end. Ciro is the Don Juan envied by all--but the first to die. Cutting in on these swan songs are the testimonies of those the men seduced, cheated, loved, and abandoned: their wives and children. Edgy, funny, and wise, The End is a candid tropical tragicomedy and an epitaph for a lost generation of machos.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Restless Books
ISBN-10
163206121x
ISBN-13
9781632061218
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038588294
Product Key Features
Book Title
End
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Hispanic & Latino, General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.1in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq9698.43.O74
Reviews
"You think you see The End coming--or the ending coming--but Fernanda Torres has other plans for you on this journey. Torres presents five friends--fairly flawed, tragic clowns--and their views on life and those around them as they try to navigate their lives and deaths. This novel is a funny, smart, well conceived, and perfectly executed playful look at mortality." --Nick Buzanski, Book Culture (New York, NY), "The intense but tenuous bonds of male friendship give shape and structure to this energetic, impressive debut from acclaimed Brazilian actress Torres . Set against the vivid backdrop of Copacabana, the episodic novel follows five contentious and devoted friends--Ciro, Silvio, Neto, Alvaro, and Ribeiro--from the hedonistic nights of their youth to the humbling days of old age. Beginning with the violent death of Alvaro, the group's last surviving member, the story meticulously works it way back through the complicated lives of each friend, culminating with the operatic death of Ciro, who retains a spark of youth until his last moments. Torres paints a sharp, intimate portrait of male sexuality and psychology (including the experience of aging), illuminating the friends' profound differences (such as between the decadent Silvio and the meeker Ribeiro) while never undermining the believability of their connection. As assured as the characterizations of the central characters are the investigations of the men and women who surround them, the wives who abide their exploits and the priests who speak at their funerals. The narration and momentum remain lively and sharp throughout." -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review, "It gives nothing away to say that this book is about the deaths of five macho male friends in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Bound together by their love of women, partying, and drugs, Torres starts each character's narrative by describing their last moments. While it was hard to like any of the characters (Silvio leaves his wife for parties with a young bisexual woman who happens to be Ribeiro's girlfriend, and the Don Juan of the group, Ciro, inflicts horrible cruelty on the one woman he commits to), the marvelous writing and dark humor kept me flipping the pages. Torres, a debut author and Brazilian actress, deftly explores male sexuality and the disappointments and frustrations of aging. The characters in the periphery of these men's lives are really the key here, seeing how misogyny, vanity, and selfishness play out on the wives, sisters, lovers, and children of the gang is fascinating." --Camilla Orr, Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe, AZ), "The year of 2013 would have been worth it for Fernanda Torres' novel alone. How beautiful it is to see an authentic literary talent emerge so clearly.... In her debut The End , she goes beyond just being a good writer. Her tone is so well crafted." --Caetano Veloso, "Famed actress Fernanda Torres's debut novel, The End , is a brutally unflinching look at the lifelong friendships of five aging male friends and the women in their lives.... [Torres has an] agile hand at establishing voice, pacing, and tone. Hers is strong, economical prose.... The machismo of each character is impressively rendered.... The End is vivid and irascible as it confronts the reality of aging, regrets, and death." --Monica Carter, Foreword Reviews, 5-Heart Review, "Torres' writing [has] flair and wit... [an] unforgiving portrait of men at their worst." -- Kirkus Reviews, "You think you see The End coming--or the ending coming--but Fernanda Torres has other plans for you on this journey. Torres presents five friends--fairly flawed, tragic clowns--and their views on life and those around them as they try to navigate their lives and deaths. This novel is a funny, smart, well conceived, and perfectly executed playful look at mortality." --Nick Buzanski, Book Culture (New York, NY), "Set in Rio de Janeiro, this fine literary debut from one of Brazil's most distinguished actors tells the stories of five men as they approach their inevitable (and in some cases premature) ends. By turns tragic and hilarious, the novel is about friendship, betrayal and excess, and about male fury against the ravages of old age." --Angel Gurría-Quintana, Financial Times, " The End , a riotous, sex-stuffed novel by Torres, which takes Technicolor pleasure in detailing the deaths of five incorrigible old beach bums of the Bossa Nova generation.... Her five men, whom she kills off in reverse chronology, are 'united by male allegiance, women, and the beach, in that order'.... With America undergoing a mass reckoning with male sexuality, a novel like this feels both taboo and gleeful, a guilty kind of reprieve." --Hermione Hoby, The New Yorker, "The intense but tenuous bonds of male friendship give shape and structure to this energetic, impressive debut from acclaimed Brazilian actress Torres. Set against the vivid backdrop of Copacabana, the episodic novel follows five contentious and devoted friends--Ciro, Silvio, Neto, Alvaro, and Ribeiro--from the hedonistic nights of their youth to the humbling days of old age. Beginning with the violent death of Alvaro, the group's last surviving member, the story meticulously works it way back through the complicated lives of each friend, culminating with the operatic death of Ciro, who retains a spark of youth until his last moments. Torres paints a sharp, intimate portrait of male sexuality and psychology (including the experience of aging), illuminating the friends' profound differences (such as between the decadent Silvio and the meeker Ribeiro) while never undermining the believability of their connection. As assured as the characterizations of the central characters are the investigations of the men and women who surround them, the wives who abide their exploits and the priests who speak at their funerals. The narration and momentum remain lively and sharp throughout." -- Publishers Weekly , Starred Review, "This book reveals a writer in full command of her art. In it are smells, sounds, objects, situations, reasoning, emotion, humor, complexity.... The author gives herself over to the mean, dirty world of her characters. Their voices are distinct.... The plot flows without feeling contrived, without seeking to teach lessons. The language is colorful, lively, molds itself around the characters, surges forward. This is a serious book in which humor is important: there is crudeness, the confrontation of problems, the pursuit of expression. It is through a group of old friends that Copacabana is revealed. And what one sees is the failure of a middle class who believed in the hedonism that has historically been associated with this part of Rio de Janeiro.... Breathtaking, a stunning debut." --Mario Sergio Conti, "Fernanda Torres animates the lives of 'five middle-class men with mediocre jobs and no artistic or economic achievements' with remarkable artistry and economy. Morbid and life-filled, sobering and ecstatic, The End has much to show its reader about the forces that make a single life, and the community of people and places that supports that life, worth living. Come for the company (wisecracking cranks, impolitic priests, characters who have to ask, 'Who cared about boring eternity? Everyone in it would have traded a thousand years of the Lord's peace for five minutes more of earthly torture'), and stay for The End ." --John Francisconi, Savoy Bookshop (Westerly, RI), "With fast-paced language and a comedic spin, Brazilian author Fernanda Torres transforms the process of aging into a thrilling read in this story of five debaucherous male friends who, drawing near their respective ends, are looking back on their best and worst moments as we revel in their decadent amorality." --Emma Ramadan, Riffraff (Providence, RI), "The vibrant writing of Fernanda Torres had me completely enthralled by the lives of five self-indulgent characters, and then even more enthralled by their deaths. THE END is an ultra-compelling dark comedy." --Katie Eelman, Papercuts J.P. (Boston, MA), "Torres's darkly humorous first novel conjures a unique time in Brazilian history through a clever narrative conceit and vividly portrayed characters." --Cortney Ophoff, Booklist, " The End is the perfect summer release. Torres creates an aging, male Carioca friend group that is a mess of cynicism, nostalgia, frustration, and a seemingly unending appetite for sex. This book is raunchy, sophisticated, and so wonderfully Brazilian. I devoured this book in one sitting. Parabens Fernanda!!!" --Daniela Roger, Books & Books (Coral Gables, FL), " The End is an impressive and dizzying narrative that gathers meaning around the many misfortunes, climaxes, offenses, triumphs, and disappointments that constitute a life or, in this case, lives. Five friends in Rio recount their stories as they grapple with the uncertainty of their imminent deaths. As readers, we get the unique pleasure of seeing the many watershed moments that change the course of a friendship from an array of perspectives. For the life of me, I can't understand how Fernanda Torres keeps this rich cast of characters and buffet of absorbing action straight. One can merely delight in the complexity of life presented in these pages, understood all the better through the lens of death." --John Gibbs, Green Apple Books on the Park (San Francisco, CA), "Set in Rio de Janeiro, this fine literary debut from one of Brazil's most distinguished actors tells the stories of five men as they approach their inevitable (and in some cases premature) ends. By turns tragic and hilarious, the novel is about friendship, betrayal and excess, and about male fury against the ravages of old age." --Angel Gurra-Quintana, Financial Times, "Five Brazilian men, each a unique reflection of machismo, have grown up together and are now dying separately, reflecting on their lives of friendship, fallouts, and hedonism. Oh, and the people they've screwed over along the way. And you get to hear from everyone: half the book grants each man a final monologue, while the other half follows the survivors picking up the pieces they've left behind. Debut novelist Fernanda Torres has no desire to absolve these men, but she does achieve a wider generosity of spirit. Their exploits are told with just enough humor to give them tangible appeal and just enough pathos to make their side effects equally memorable." --Jonathan Woollen, Politics & Prose (Washington, DC)
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-940784
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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