Amado, Jorge

New York. 1986. January 1986. Avon/Bard. 1st Avon/Bard Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0380898314. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. 274 pages. paperback. . keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - RIO. 1940. Full of ambition and hot air, an arrogant, pompous, and cruel Nazi colonel was conspiring to occupy a vacant chair in the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Add to this outrage, this rank defilement, the fact that he wanted the very seat recently vacated by celebrated poet Antonio Bruno, a lover of many women and one city, Paris, whose fall to the Germans had killed him as decisively as a Fascist bullet in the heart. But what force on earth could keep the colonel's fat bottom from resting on a velvet seat of the Immortal Forty? It would take an audacious plan spawned by the cunning minds of two ageing academicians . . the irresistible sexuality of the women Bruno had loved . . and a will to win against the odds-in Jorge Amado's wonderful, high-spirited tale full of satire and broad humor that reaches back through the mock-heroic tradition to carry a message of hope and courage for the battles of today. inventory #10916 ISBN: 0380898314.