Showdown: A Novel - Softcover

Amado, Jorge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553346660 ISBN 13: 9780553346664

Verlag: Bantam, 1989

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Book by Amado Jorge

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Críticas:

"Set in Bahia at the turn of the century, Showdown is brimming with the gunmen, fugitives, prostitutes and other characters who settled that sunbaked northeastern state."--The New York Times

"[Jorge] Amado has returned to some of his earliest, most radical concerns, confronting Brazilian society, memory, and mythmaking, and aiming to show, by anecdote, how the Brazil of the modernizing present has buried its (criminal) past."--Commentary

"The Brazil [Amado] writes about in Showdown shares many of the traditions of the American frontier, and that is something Americans can relate to."--Linda Grey, former Bantam president and publisher

"Showdown is a combination of the old Amado, who wrote Bahian historical novels, and the new Amado, with the spirit of Gabriela."--Gregory Rabassa, National Book Award-winning translator of Showdown

Reseña del editor:

In his unanimously praised novel full of sex and adventure, violence and courage, Amado has created a South American "Western" and people it with wonderfully earthy characters from his childhood.

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• Verlag: Bantam
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0553346660
• ISBN 13: 9780553346664
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432