[New York]: A Bard Book / Avon Books / David R. Godine [1986]. Near Fine. 1986. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. 0380898314 . First edition thus. "From the ribald, outrageous acts of lusty old men, a tale of courage, laughter, and truth". 274 pages. Near Fine copy [cheap text paper starting to tan]. .

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Title: PEN, SWORD, CAMISOLE: A FABLE TO KINDLE HOPE [originally published as: FARDA, FARDAO, CAMISOLA DE DORMIR]
Publisher: A Bard Book / Avon Books / David R. Godine [1986], [New York]
Publication Date: 1986
Language: Portuguese
ISBN 10: 0380898314
ISBN 13: 9780380898312
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: First Thus.
Condition: Near Fine

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It is 1940. In Rio de Janeiro, a crisis is brewing. The brilliant womanizing poet, Antonio Bruno, has just died, and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is vacant. Who will replace him? Colonel Agnaldo Sampaio Pereira, chief of security of the New State Dictatorship, who welcomed control with unqualified joy, resolves it shall be he. But he does not count on the resistance organized by two intrepid octogenarians who rally to their standard a powerful group as determined to keep the colonel out of the Academy as he is to get in. Thus battle is engaged, in which the international forces of sm and the national forces of reaction and totalitarianism unite against two old men and four remarkable women-a typically fiery actress, a dressmaker who is not averse to a little part-time paid companionship, the wife of one of Brazil s richest men, and an industrialist s radical daughter-all former mistresses of the poet Bruno. Amado subtitled his novel A Fable to Kindle a Hope. It is a just description, because this book, with its great, glorious doses of wit, is a ferocious and heartening cry for freedom.

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