Once Upon a Time — a Floating Opera South America including two autobiographies written without

including two autobiographies written without the word "I" and her novel Between

Brandão is relentlessly harsh and raw

blending social realism with lush modernist experiment

Assassins explores the "small things" that give shape and meaning to the "big events

Once Upon a Time — a Floating Opera South America including two autobiographies written withoutA celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer New York Times A celebration of the power of narrative, of the questions it must ask and can answer [It is] brilliantly conceived, elegantly written, bursting with life, profound in its understanding, bawdy and funny, and comic in the wisest and best sense of the word. New York Times John Barth, a moderately successful novelist just turned sixty, decides to take a