Details
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Title
His Own Man
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Author
Ribeiro, Edgard Telles
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Binding
Paperback
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
341
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Other Press, LLC
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Date
2014-09-23
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Bookseller's Inventory #
7640653-6
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ISBN
9781590516980 / 1590516982
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Weight
0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
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Dimensions
8.2 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Brazil - Politics and government - 20th, Dictatorship - Brazil - History - 20th
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2013047561
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
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Brazilian author and diplomat Edgard Telles Ribeiro (b. 1944) spent a peripatetic childhood in Marseille and various other European cities. After returning to Brazil, he worked as a journalist, filmmaker, and professor of film studies before entering the foreign service. His debut novel O Craido Mudo (The Night Table), was published in English to critical acclaim as I Would Have Loved Him If I Had Not Killed Him, and was subsequently translated into Dutch, German, and Spanish. Later novels and short story collections have garnered some of the most important literary prizes in Brazil, including the Jabuti Prize (twice), the Brazilian Academy of Letters Prize; and for his latest novel, HIS OWN MAN, the Brazilian PEN Prize (2011). He currently divides his time between New York and Rio de Janeiro.
Kim M. Hastings was raised overseas and lived for several years in São Paulo. She studied Brazilian language and literature at Brown University and has a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale. For the past fifteen years, she has been a freelance editor and translator, working with academic presses and commercial publishers. Her translations include fiction by Rubem Fonseca, Rachel Jardim, and Adriana Lisboa. The author lives in New York and Rio de Janeiro.
Media reviews
"Max savors like no one else the sinister mechanisms of power and becomes a master at manipulating them to his own advantage. In the process, Telles Ribeiro's protagonist also joins the roster of the most unforgettable characters in modern fiction." —Laura Restrepo, author of Delirium
"A penetrating exploration of the [political] stage wings, where government, the military, and business leaders play their hands—with the press and the opposition silenced—and not merely in Brazil." —O Globo (Brazil)
"Assures the author's definitive place among the major novelists of the Portuguese language." —O Estado de São Paulo (Brazil)
"Perhaps the most masterfully conceived portrait of a diplomat in our literature since...Machado de Assis." —O Valor Econômico (Brazil)
About the author
Brazilian author and diplomat Edgard Telles Ribeiro (b. 1944) spent a peripatetic childhood in Marseille and various other European cities. After returning to Brazil, he worked as a journalist, filmmaker, and professor of film studies before entering the foreign service. His debut novel "O Craido Mudo" ("The Night Table"), was published in English to critical acclaim as "I Would Have Loved Him If I Had Not Killed Him," and was subsequently translated into Dutch, German, and Spanish. Later novels and short story collections have garnered some of the most important literary prizes in Brazil, including the Jabuti Prize (twice), the Brazilian Academy of Letters Prize; and for his latest novel, HIS OWN MAN, the Brazilian PEN Prize (2011). He currently divides his time between New York and Rio de Janeiro.
Kim M. Hastings was raised overseas and lived for several years in Sao Paulo. She studied Brazilian language and literature at Brown University and has a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale. For the past fifteen years, she has been a freelance editor and translator, working with academic presses and commercial publishers. Her translations include fiction by Rubem Fonseca, Rachel Jardim, and Adriana Lisboa. The author lives in New York and Rio de Janeiro."
