O Lago

Tom, a writer and director who started out as an actor, has little use for friends, relatives or romance; what fills his life are books, dogs, characters and the people who play them. He gives the lead in his new play, which he will also stage, to Jane, a young actress whose hopes of dancing ended with an injury. The script keeps changing in rehearsal as he works with his cast, and her preparation for the part spills out of the theatre into a consuming relationship with him, lived out in a remote, snowbound valley where he keeps a house cut off from everything. As the winter goes on, it grows ever harder to say where the actress ends and the role begins, or where art stops and life starts.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

129 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2011 by Relógio D'Água

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9789896412661 (original)