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The unreliable narrator and the fictional memoir are long-standing literary traditions Nineteenth-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis uses both to brilliant effect in his novel Dom Casmurro. Narrated by Bento Santiago, this memoir looks back over a life filled with the suspicion of betrayal: Bento is convinced that his wife had an affair with his best friend, and that his son was the result of it. Though he has no real evidence to support this belief, Bento becomes so obsessed with it that, in the end, he commits crimes far worse than the suspected adultery to avenge himself. The memoir itself is a kind of justification for his actions; Bento, now alone, recreates the environment of his childhood and attempts to rewrite the facts of his life--in essence, reconstructing the past.

Among readers familiar with Latin American literature, Machado is considered a master. His novels blend black comedy with deadly accurate social commentary and an unerring perception of human psychology to create works that are brilliant, complex without being opaque, and joys to read. The Oxford University Press edition is ably translated by John Gledson and accompanied by critical essays that will help orient readers unfamiliar with Machado's work..
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After Ben Walker returned from Vietnam, he accepted the only employment offered-a job flying for the Mob in Las Vegas. When his employers decided his services were no longer needed, they gave a retirement party on his behalf, but he failed to show. His employers did, however, succeed at having his wife murdered. When Walker questioned them about this, they said, “Nothing personal. It was just a routine precaution.” Walker did, however, take it very personally. He asked a friend for help and got it. And this time they would decide the rules of engagement, not some damn politician. You are cordially invited to take this journey into a world of cruel men with incomprehensible greed pitted against men who are just trying to survive. Though they are from different eras and battlefields, their goal was the same: Coping with P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)..
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Title: Never at a loss for words.(Entertainment)(The taciturn Texan doesn't seem to be one for interviews, so we let his songs do all the talking)
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: September 17, 2004
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: T6

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