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Brazil Hardcover - 1994

by John Updike

Erotic joy, criminal mischief, politics and sorcery mingle in the 16th offering from the author of Rabbit Run. In Brazil, the lives of two young lovers spring together and take flight--forever running from her rich father and the toughs he sends in pursuit of them.


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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 apart--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.

"Steamy...breathtaking."--The New Yorker They 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 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 rear cover

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.

From the jacket flap

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.

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  • Title Brazil
  • Author John Updike
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1994-01-25
  • ISBN 9780679430711 / 0679430717
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.23 x 5.52 x 1.13 in (20.90 x 14.02 x 2.87 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Tristan (Legendary character) - Romances -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93028632
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Steamy . . . breathtaking . . . In Updike’s novel, our vast South American neighbor emerges as a country both ancient and new.”—The New Yorker
 
“There is a wonderful drive to the novel, true lyricism, real drama. . . . Updike has rare insight into the psychology of sexual behavior and the mysterious, almost otherworldly devotedness Tristão and Isabel share.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“The book [is] thrilling, not only by its own rights, as an action-driven narrative designed to thrill, but also as an instance of a contemporary master, one whom we thought we had figured out long ago, daring to reinvent himself before our jaded eyes.”—The New Criterion

Citations

  • Booklist, 12/01/1993, Page 660
  • Library Journal, 01/01/1994, Page 165
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/22/1993, Page 0

About the author

JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.
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