Brazil

Brazil

by John Updike
Brazil

Brazil

by John Updike

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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780449911631
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/27/1996
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 589,886
Product dimensions: 5.41(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

March 18, 1932

Date of Death:

January 27, 2009

Place of Birth:

Shillington, Pennsylvania

Place of Death:

Beverly Farms, MA

Education:

A.B. in English, Harvard University, 1954; also studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England

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i. The Beach
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What People are Saying About This

Michiko Katukani

Couched as a retelling of the Tristan and Iseult legend, Brazil begins as an arch fairy tale and ends as a modern-day soap opera full of racial and sexual cliches. It does for racial understanding what Mr. Updike's angry, bitter portraits of women in The Witches of Eastwick and S did for communication between the sexes. -- The New York Times

From the Publisher

“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

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