BrazilThey 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. |
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User Review - Olivermagnus - LibraryThingThis was a very bizarre story that features Updike's version of the legend of Tristan and Iseult, prototype victims of doomed love. Nineteen year old Tristao, a black teenager from the Brazilian slums ... Read full review
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User Review - dbsovereign - LibraryThingThis may not be his best, but I like it the best of Updike's novels. A story of survival (on many levels), it shines as a novel about falling in lust and how things can go rather downhill from there... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Brazil A Borzoi book |
| Author | John Updike |
| Publisher | A.A. Knopf, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0679430717, 9780679430711 |
| Length | 260 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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