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Fernanda Torres
1) The end
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Restless Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"With uncanny insight into the less virtuous corners of the male psyche, Fernanda Torres brings us five friends who once milked the high life of Rio's Bossa Nova age and are now left with memories--parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions--and the grim realities of getting old. Álvaro lives alone and bemoans the evils of his ex-wife. Sílvio can't give up the excesses of sex and drugs. Ribeiro is a vain, Viagra-abusing...
2) Fim
Author
Publisher
Companhia das Letras, EditoraSchwarcz
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
2d reimpressão.
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Portuguese
Description
Five old friends in Rio, Álvaro, Sílvio, Ribeiro, Neto and Ciro, look back on important events in their lives. Success in a career, personal realization and serenity were always out of reach. None of them seems able, after all, to gather together anything more than an inventory of frustrations.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes.
Publisher
Winstar TV & Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD-vidéo (100 min) : son., n&b ; 12 cm.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"After the unexpected death of his mother, Paco, an aspiring actor from Sao Paulo, longs to leave his native Brazil. Tired of living in suqalior, he accepts a 'delivery job' from a shady antique dealer and travels to Lisbon carrying a violin filled with uncut diamonds. But when the exchange goes bad, he finds himself on the run from an underworld thug and in the arms of Alex, a beautiful woman caught up in the Portuguese black market."
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Political terrorists, in a desperate bid to focus the world's attention on their fight for freedom, kidnap an American ambassador. Now the diplomat's life hangs in the balance-- helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate-- and his fear of the captors themselves!
