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Brazil
Brazil
Author: John Updike
In the dream-Brazil of John Updike’s imagining, almost anything is possible if you are young and in love. When Tristão 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 rea...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140236545
ISBN-10: 0140236546
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Fawcett
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Updike's piece is sexy and masterful. This story of two youths of diametrically different backgrounds is set in a fantastic setting which allows Updike to deal with issues of gender, race, and class. It was racier than I expected (I would probably not recommend for someone who is a young reader).
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