What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?

The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first...
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Author: Antonio Lobo Antunes
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What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire? by Antunes, Antonio Lobo

What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?

$84.55

What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?

$84.55
Author: Antonio Lobo Antunes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde--a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts--is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos's lover, Rui, a heroin addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of this hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with literary symbolism, and deeply sympathetic in its depiction of society's dregs, Lobo Antunes's novel ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce's Ulysses with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget.

Author: Antonio Lobo Antunes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2008
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.66w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780393329483


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2008 pg. 715
Library Journal 08/15/2008 pg. 70
New York Times Book Review 11/23/2008 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2008 pg. 18
Village Voice Best Books 12/10/2008 pg. 44

About the Author
Rabassa, Gregory: - Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was the recipient of multiple prizes including a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center for contributions to Hispanic literature and a National Medal of Arts. He was the translator of One Hundred Years of Solitude, among other classic works.Lobo Antunes, António: - António Lobo Antunes, born in 1942 in Benfica, is considered to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, he has won many awards and makes his home in Lisbon.

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