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António Lobo Antunes What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? (Paperback). 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. Further DetailsTitle: What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? Condition: New Subtitle: A Novel Author: António Lobo Antunes Translator: Gregory Rabassa Contributor: Gregory Rabassa (Translated by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0393329488 EAN: 9780393329483 ISBN: 9780393329483 Publisher: WW Norton & Co Release Date: 09/17/2008 Genre: Fiction Description: 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 208mm Item Length: 142mm Item Width: 30mm Item Weight: 765g Type: Alternative History Release Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
