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The Double
José Saramago Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
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9780156032582 Trade Paperback
0156032589
$14.00
336pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
2004
Territory:
US, C, O
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Tertuliano M-ximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly.
Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.
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"THE DOUBLE begins by intriguing us, proceeds to entertain, charm and engage, and ultimately manages to disturb."
Merle Rubin,Los Angeles Times,10/4/2004
"[Saramago's] take on the theme is clever, alarming and blackly funny"
Richard Eder,New York Times,10/10/2004
"Saramago's observations come in small bursts that lift themselves up in startling truth and beauty."
San Francisco Chronicle,11/21/2004
"THE DOUBLE is another haunting book... from a writer who seems to produce masterpiece after masterpiece"
The New Leader,9/1/2004
"[Saramago is] a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life"
John Updike,The New Yorker,9/27/2004
"What satisfying pleasure it is to be told this cautionary tale by a teller at the peak of his wisdom and sly wit."
Trenton Times,2/13/2005
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Biography |
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JOS+ SARAMAGO is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. The author of numerous novels, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
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Awards |
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| Nobel Prize in Literature • Author Award |
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Literary
Fiction- General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- World Literature
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Foreign Languages & Literature- Portuguese Language & Literature
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