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
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Book Description TRADE PAPERBACK. Condition: New. Ballantine Books. New. Ballantine Books, Paperback, 1996, Book Condition: New; small remainder mark. In the dream-Brazil of John Updike's imagining, almost anything is possible if you are young and in love. When Tristao 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. . 1996. TRADE PAPERBACK. Seller Inventory # 9780449911631
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A page-turning novel about a Black teen from the Rio slums and an upper-class white girl who are brought together by fate and betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apartfrom one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.Steamy.breathtaking.The New YorkerThey meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen 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 their families, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild westunaware 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 The richest and most sensual novel in years from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Rabbit series. Two young, beautiful lovers, a black child of the Rio slums and a pampered upper-class white girl, endure privation, violence, and captivity to be together. "Steamy . . . breathtaking".--The New Yorker. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780449911631
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