{"product_id":"hugs-and-cuddles-9781949641387","title":"Hugs and Cuddles","description":"\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHugs and Cuddles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ezealously recommits himself to a man he calls “the engineer”, a childhood friend with whom he shared a pivotal sexual encounter.\u003c\/b\u003e Many years have passed since their prepubescent wrestling; everywhere around them is a nation in decline. Representatives of the Brazilian state—everyone from government officials to the impoverished—endlessly harass passers-by for donations to “the cause,” even as a mysterious plague rages. Never mind that. Our insatiable narrator, driven to discover his true self through increasingly transgressive sexual urges, is on an epic journey\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethrough the shadows of this dysfunctional yet polite society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe resulting novel is the late\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoão Gilberto Noll’s most radical statement:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Book of Revelations-grade voyage to the end of gender and the outermost reaches of sexual and artistic expression.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHugs and Cuddles\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an unapologetically explicit fable of fluidity that takes readers from decaying city centers to the dark corridors of a mysterious submarine to a miserable hovel in the rainforest, where, at long last, our narrator finds peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joao Gilberto Noll","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959855157366,"sku":"9781949641387","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_ffcc00a7-9428-4d2d-9198-8ece2ae0e6a0.jpg?v=1767776869","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/hugs-and-cuddles-9781949641387","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}