Books by Moacyr Scliar and Complete Book Reviews

Moacyr Scliar, Author Ballantine Books $5.95 (100p) ISBN 978-0-345-35969-8
In this collection's title story, a wealthy man asks a thief to steal a masterful portrait of an old aristocrat with an enigmatic gaze. The man stares at the painting for hours at a time and sees the image slowly vanish until only the right eye is...
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Moacyr Scliar, Author Harmony $19.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-517-56776-0
Rafael Mendes seems to have it alla condo in the most posh section of town, an exalted position in his Brazilian finance firm, a beautiful 18-year-old daughter, an attractive wife and a mistress. But the world is falling apart for the protagonist of
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Moacyr Scliar, Author, Eloah F. Giacomelli, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Eloah F. Giacomelli. Plume $11 (115p) ISBN 978-0-452-28453-1
Originally published in Brazil in 1981, Scliar's novella tells, with a sharp eye but a glancing touch, the story of a boy at the mercy of terrible forces, who grows into a man similarly powerless, until he commits an act of violent defiance....
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