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ISBN-10: 163206121X
ISBN-13: 9781632061218
Publisher: Restless Books
Publish Date: 07/11/2017
Dimensions: 7.00" L, 5.00" W, 0.50" H

The End

Translator: Alison Entrekin

Paperback

Price: $16.99

Overview

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. Álvaro lives alone and bemoans the evils of his ex-wife. Sílvio 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.

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"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

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Details

ISBN-10: 163206121X
ISBN-13: 9781632061218
Publisher: Restless Books
Publish Date: 07/11/2017
Dimensions: 7.00" L, 5.00" W, 0.50" H
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