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From celebrated Brazilian actress and bestselling author of The End Fernanda Torres comes a hilarious send-up of the art and artifice of acting, in which a star of stage and screen�s disastrous turn as King Lear sends him into a tragicomic tailspin. As an actor, Mario Cardoso has everything going for him: acclaim, an elevated lifestyle, artistic achievement. His apex will be staging a production of Shakespeare�s masterpiece King Lear. Everything is going brilliantly until, seeing his co-star dressed as chicken with a diaper, he breaks down in hysterical laughter, and does so again in each subsequent performance. Mario�s troubles worsen when he receives a call reporting that his mother has been found unconscious on a beach in Rio. He abandons Lear and returns to her�and enters a swirl of family drama he�d determined to leave behind. His first shot at recovering his career comes in the guise of a biblical role in an evangelical TV station�s production of a soap opera: Sodoma. He has a torrid affair, finds love, and lands a deal with the country�s biggest TV network for steady work in soap operas. Mario�s new life brings fame and money that theater could never match�but compromises he�s made in the past come snarling back to bite him, and his next stage set will be one he never anticipated. With the wicked humor and fleet-footed pace that made her novel The End a runaway bestseller in Brazil and a critical hit in the U.S., Fernanda Torres�s Glory and its Litany of Horrors is a wise and funny send-up of a generation that witnessed their ideas of art fall into the hands of the market, and their ideas of the future proven to be as illusory as theater.