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The Fat Man and Infinity: And Other Writings Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Lobo Antunes, António

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Antunes' sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. In his memoir, written over 30 years in chronicle form, he reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood--the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in mid-century.

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Antnio 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.

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  • Title The Fat Man and Infinity: And Other Writings
  • Author Lobo Antunes, António
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date 2009-02
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393061987
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Portuguese

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  • Booklist, 01/01/2009, Page 35
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2008, Page 1233
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2009, Page 76
  • New York Times Book Review, 03/01/2009, Page 11
  • New Yorker (The), 05/04/2009, Page 69

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