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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 YorkerFrom Fernanda Torres, the celebrated Brazilian actress and bestselling author of The End, comes a riotous tragicomedy of a famed actors path from national sex symbol to cult icon to raving madman after a disastrous performance as King Lear. Mario Cardosos 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.Enter King Lear. Marios turn as Shakespeares mad monarch goes well until hes overtaken by a fit of laughter that gets more demented with each performance. Forced to cancel the show, hes confronted with his mothers unstaged madnessshes now convinced that Mario is in fact her long-departed husband. Broke and desperate, Mario signs on for an evangelical network production: Sodoma. Yet, as low as hes fallen, Marios final set is one he never imagined.With the wicked humor and fleet-footed pace that made her novel The End a runaway bestseller in Brazil, Fernanda Torress Glory and its Litany of Horrors 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. From Fernanda Torres, the celebrated Brazilian actress and bestselling author of The End, comes a riotous tragicomedy of a famed actors path from national sex symbol to cult icon to raving madman after a disastrous performance as King Lear. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781632061126