The Fat Man and Infinity: And Other Writings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393061987)

Antio Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, "the heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood--the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in midcentury. His Proust-like memoirs, written over thirty years in chronicle form, pass through the filter of an adult who has known war and pain, and bear witness to the people whom he loved and who have gone into the dark. Stunningly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, in prose that glides like poetry, this is a modern-day chronicle of Portugal's imperfect past and arresting present, seen through the eyes of a master fiction writer, one on a short list to win a Nobel Prize. Readers particularly touched by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes will be drawn to this journey into the heart of one of our greatest living writers.

Author: Antio Lobo Antunes
ISBN-10: 0393061981
ISBN-13: 9780393061987
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2008 pg. 1233
Booklist 01/01/2009 pg. 35
New York Times Book Review 03/01/2009 pg. 11
Library Journal 05/01/2009 pg. 76
New Yorker (The) 05/04/2009 pg. 69