Masters Of Atlantis, Charles Portis
Masters Of Atlantis, Charles Portis
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Masters Of Atlantis

Author: Charles Portis

Narrator: Brian Emerson

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2008

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

Following the enthusiastically received reissues of Charles Portiss The Dog of the South and Norwood comes the republication of Masters of Atlantis, Portiss white comedy of secret societies, lost cities, and American dreamers.

About Charles Portis

Charles Portis (1933–2020) was an American author best known for his classic Western True Grit and the novel Norwood, both of which were made into major motion pictures. He served in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War and then attended the University of Arkansas. As a reporter, he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune and was also its London bureau chief. His first novel, Norwood, was published in 1966 and True Grit in 1968. His other novels include Masters of Atlantis, The Dog of the South, and Gringos.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on September 20, 2016

A couple of gullible fools are conned into believing a book of gibberish contains the mysteries of the universe. They establish a secret society based around the text and spend the rest of their lives being idiots. Charles Portis’ Masters of Atlantis is a light comedy/satire on cults and secret socie......more

Goodreads review by Krok Zero on August 07, 2011

My favorite Portis, I think. Such perfect command of tone: stone-face deadpan treatment of screwball-nutty material, like the prose equivalent of a Buster Keaton film. The nominal subject is cults and secret societies, but that's just Portis' entry point into the same kind of earnest eccentrics that......more

Goodreads review by David on May 20, 2024

What a treat! What a find! Portis' next-to-last of his 5 novels is simply hilarious from start to finish; sheer entertainment of the highest order - a wildly eccentric satire that never lets up and never lets down! I'm not recalling how I have once again happened upon Portis' path. I know I read 'Tr......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 22, 2019

Lamar Jimmerson accidentally starts a thriving secret society. Silliness ensues. Lampooning the already wacky conspiracy literature genre doesn't take too much effort, since the whole subset of books is generally weird and wild to start with (see also the Illuminatus! trilogy, a personal favorite of......more

Goodreads review by Tim on March 08, 2011

About 70 pages into his fourth novel, Charles Portis seems to decide to turn up the heat on his simmering cauldron of fun and set the whole mess to bubbling and popping, cleanup be damned. "Masters of Atlantis" (4.5 stars) thereafter goes from a quite enjoyable, fairly amusing tale to just about as......more

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