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Winner of the 2013 Domingos da Silva Teixeira Distinguished Literature Award for the best book published in Portugal in the past two years: The favored prostitute of Lisbon's rich and powerful has been found dead amid austerity protests in Portugal, and down-on-his-luck actor Americo Abril, who has just won the role of a lifetime playing Paul Giamatti in the avant-garde film Being Paul Giamatti , is the prime suspect. Abril seeks the real killer, and he grapples with what it means to be Paul Giamatti. Confounded by the role he plays in the film and the roles that he plays in real life—weary dad, blocked artist, henpecked husband, miserable lover, wanted man—Abril struggles to hold together himself, his family, and his country. The True Actor , the English-language debut by award-winning Portuguese author Jacinto Lucas Pires, manages both a postmodern boondoggle and a touching story of identity and love and loss in austerity-era Portugal. "Politically conscious, cinematic, and everything else that is characteristic of the literature of Lucas Pires, all absorbed into and shaken out in a game of conscience in which he holds all the cards. And this book is his royal flush." — Time Ou

Who reads The True Actor?

Author

Jacinto Lucas Pires

Publisher

Dzanc Books, Disquiet

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781480468351

Category

work of fiction