Atlantic Hotel by Noll, João Gilberto

Atlantic Hotel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781931883603)

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Atlantic Hotel by Noll, João Gilberto

Atlantic Hotel

$9.95
Atlantic Hotel by Noll, João Gilberto

Atlantic Hotel

$9.95
Format: Paperback
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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.


Author: Jo縊 Gilberto Noll
ISBN-10: 1931883602
ISBN-13: 9781931883603
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/06/2017
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2017
By Jo縊 Gilberto Noll
By Jo縊 Gilberto Noll
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Jo縊 Gilberto Noll is the author of nearly 20 books. His work has appeared in Brazil's leading periodicals, and he has been a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, King's College London, and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Pr麥io Jabuti, and the recipient of over 10 awards in all, he lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Adam Morris has a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of Hilda Hilst's With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House Books, 2014) and Noll's Quite Creature on the Corner (Two Lines Press, 2015). His writing and translations have been published widely, including in BOMB magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and many others. He lives in San Francisco.

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