Brazil
Author(s): John Updike
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west.
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John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. John Updike's first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, was published in 1959. It was followed by Rabbit, Run, Rabbit is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990). Other novels by John Updike include Marry Me, The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film, Memories of the Ford Administration, Brazil, In the Beauty of the Lilies and Toward the End of Time.
General Fields
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- : pgnnz
- : pgnnz
- : 0.206
- : 26 October 2006
- : 198mm X 129mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Updike
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 813.54
- : 272