{"id":45755,"date":"2019-08-22T11:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45755"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T15:14:44","slug":"glory-and-its-litany-of-horrors-by-fernanda-torres-translated-by-eric-m-b-becker-shelf-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/glory-and-its-litany-of-horrors-by-fernanda-torres-translated-by-eric-m-b-becker-shelf-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory and Its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres, translated by Eric M.B. Becker [in Shelf Awareness]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45605\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Glory-and-Its-Litany-of-Horrors-Fernanda-Torres-BookDragon-561x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Glory-and-Its-Litany-of-Horrors-Fernanda-Torres-BookDragon-561x800.jpg 561w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Glory-and-Its-Litany-of-Horrors-Fernanda-Torres-BookDragon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/>Once upon a time, Mario Cardoso was &#8220;a god beneath the spotlight, a counterculture sex symbol, archetype of the ideal man, Dionysus reborn.&#8221; With no lack of youthful passion, he quits his architecture studies to join the chorus of a raucous production of <em>Hair<\/em> and quickly rises to superstardom on stage and screen. Collecting accolades, fans, lovers (in addition to an Oxford-educated, upper-class wife), decades pass, until one day he admits he&#8217;s &#8220;a lazy actor in league with bloodsuckers raiding the national treasury,&#8221; easily bought by corporations eager to capitalize on artistic sponsorships now that Brazil&#8217;s quarter-century-old dictatorship seems finished.<\/p>\n<p>Middle age is not treating Mario well. Cast in a Stone Age-set production of <em>King Lear<\/em>, Mario bursts on stage, wearing stifling sheepskin costumes, and descends into unstoppable laughter, &#8220;overcome with a childish, demented, diabolic joy.&#8221; The madness of the betrayed monarch becomes Mario&#8217;s own, and he never quite regains control. &#8220;Catastrophes travel in packs,&#8221; of course, and off-stage, Mario&#8217;s personal life continues to implode as he&#8217;s called to his mother&#8217;s hospital bedside, where she mistakes him for her husband. The drama is about to get much, much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres writes about what she knows, while writer, editor and translator Eric M.B. Becker provides English-language audiences ready access to Torres&#8217;s affecting performance on the page. Having alchemized theater into her standout debut, <em>The End<\/em>, Torres returns with another tragicomedy about the cost of &#8220;this bind they call fame&#8221; \u2013 the irresistible lure, the blinding reception, the fickle adoration, and the unrelenting need for reinventions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discover<\/strong>: Brazilian author Fernanda Torres&#8217;s tragicomic sophomore title features a middle-aged thespian beset by catastrophes both professional and personal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/readers-issue.html?issue=843#m14763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Shelf Awareness<\/em>, August 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2017, 2019 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Mario Cardoso was &#8220;a god beneath the spotlight, a counterculture sex symbol, archetype of the ideal man, Dionysus reborn.&#8221; With no lack of youthful passion, he quits his architecture studies to join the chorus of a raucous production of Hair and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,6535,201,66],"tags":[84,6608,8583,10,8582,8581,51,123,13,39,6872],"class_list":["post-45755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-repost","category-south-american","category-translation","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-eric-m-b-becker","tag-family","tag-fernanda-torres","tag-glory-and-its-litany-of-horrors","tag-identity","tag-illness","tag-love","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-shelf-awareness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Glory and Its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres, translated by Eric M.B. 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