The taker, and other stories /

The taker, and other stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Fonseca, Rubem.
Uniform title:	Short stories. English. Selections
Imprint:	Rochester, N.Y. : Open Letter, 2008.
Description:	166 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Short stories, Brazilian. Short stories, Brazilian. Short stories, Brazilian. Short stories.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7413124

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Other authors / contributors:	Landers, Clifford E.
ISBN:	193482402X 9781934824023
Summary:	From the Publisher: "The Taker and Other Stories is Rubem Fonseca's first collection to appear in English translation, and it ranges across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of the modern landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, a city whose disparities-in wealth, social standing, and prestige-are untenable. In the stories of The Taker, rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order, and violence and deception are essential tools of survival." Whether recounting the story of a businessman who runs over pedestrians to let off steam, a serial killer being pushed to ever greater crimes by his bourgeois lover, the desperate poor rushing to butcher a cow that has been killed in a traffic accident, or a man seeking out confirmation for a past that his friends deny, Fonseca repeatedly reaffirms his status as one of the purest storytellers on the contemporary Brazilian literary scene.
Standard no.:	40016108996

Table of Contents:

Night drive
Taker
Betsy
Enemy
Account of the incident
Pride
Notebook
Eleventh of May
Book of panegyrics
Trials of a young writer
Other
Happy New Year
Dwarf
Flesh and the bones.