| Atlantic Hotel Contributor(s): Noll, Joćo Gilberto (Author), Morris, Adam (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1931883602 ISBN-13: 9781931883603 Publisher: Two Lines Press OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016955682 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.4" W x 6.9" (0.35 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Just who is the narrator of Jo o Gilberto Noll's dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he's an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. Next he says he's a soap opera actor, which is a bad idea--it makes the people he's hitchhiking with want to kill him. Then he impersonates a priest. He travels to yet another town, and this time he knocks on a very wrong door. The man who opens it has him in the crosshairs of a gun--the narrator passes out, and when he awakes something terrible is happening to him . . . Crossing the wanderings of a fl neur with the menacing mystery of a hard-boiled noir, and always leaving the narrator's identity in flux, Brazilian master Jo o Gilberto Noll ponders how any of us come to possess a sense of who--or what--we are. Published right before his widely acclaimed Quiet Creature on the Corner, Noll's Atlantic Hotel is one of his best-known and most infamous works. |