{"product_id":"9781931883610","title":"Atlantic Hotel","description":"Just who is the narrator of João Gilberto Noll’s dark and mysterious \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he’s an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. Next he says he’s a soap opera actor, which is a bad idea—it makes the people he’s hitchhiking with want to kill him. Then he impersonates a priest. He travels to yet another town, and this time he knocks on a very wrong door. The man who opens it has him in the crosshairs of a gun—the narrator passes out, and when he awakes something terrible is happening to him . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrossing the wanderings of a flâneur with the menacing mystery of a hard-boiled noir, and always leaving the narrator’s identity in flux, Brazilian master João Gilberto Noll ponders how any of us come to possess a sense of who—or what—we are. Published right before his widely acclaimed \u003ci\u003eQuiet Creature on the Corner,\u003c\/i\u003e Noll’s \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is one of his best-known and most infamous works.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Lines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176424718576,"sku":"9781931883610","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931883610_p0.jpg?v=1763639122","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931883610","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}