{"product_id":"hugs-and-cuddles-9781949641387","title":"Hugs and Cuddles","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eHugs and Cuddles\u003c\/em\u003e, our deepest, most intimate erotic transformations are elaborated and played like free jazz by a virtuoso.\" --Juan Cárdenas, author of \u003cem\u003eOrnamental\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of \u003ci\u003eHugs and Cuddles\u003c\/i\u003e zealously recommits himself to a man he calls \"the engineer\", a childhood friend with whom he shared a pivotal sexual encounter. 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 through the shadows of this dysfunctional yet polite society.\u003cbr\u003eThe resulting novel is the late João Gilberto Noll's most radical statement: A Book of Revelations-grade voyage to the end of gender and the outermost reaches of sexual and artistic expression. Nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto, \u003ci\u003eHugs and Cuddles \u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Lines Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949641387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jo\u0026#227;o Gilberto Noll","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42342758973621,"sku":"9781949641387","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_94338265-532e-4e2b-8512-145de953d0d3.jpg?v=1661263382","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hugs-and-cuddles-9781949641387","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}