| Brazil Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0449911632 ISBN-13: 9780449911631 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west -- unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them . . . Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the late eighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence. "A tour de force . . . Spectacular." -- Time "Updike's novel, as tender as it is erotic, becomes a magnificently wrought love story . . . . Beautifully written." -- Detroit Free Press "From the Paperback edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96096717 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.51" W x 8.29" (0.54 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the dream-Brazil of John Updike's imagining, almost anything is possible if you are young and in love. When Trist o Raposo, a black nineteen-year-old from the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach, their flight from family and into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's phantasmagoric western frontier. Privation, violence, captivity, and reversals of fortune afflict them, yet this latter-day Tristan and Iseult cling to the faith that each is the other's fate for life. Spanning twenty-two years, from the sixties through the eighties, Brazil surprises with its celebration of passion, loyalty, romance, and New World innocence. |