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BRAZIL
by UPDIKE, JOHN
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0679430717
- ISBN 13
- 9780679430711
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Remainder Hardcover BCE Book in Good+ Condition with s Dust Jacket As New. Remainder marks on all three sides of the text block, in heavy black-no other defects. Gold binding with silver titles is very clean and unmarked; internals as new. Set in Rio Brazil where almost anything is possible, if you are young and in love. And so, Tristao, a 19 year-old child of the slums and Isabel Leme, am 18 year-old child of the upper class, run off and get married. Their flight takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west--and their experiences are for you to read! John Updike is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 260 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1994, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
Reviews
On May 1 2011, Enoch said:
Worth the read. Well written. Don't want to give the plot away.
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Details
- Seller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 016495
- Title
- BRAZIL
- Author
- UPDIKE, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- ISBN 10
- 0679430717
- ISBN 13
- 9780679430711
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- SLUMS, RIO, BRAZIL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Modern Classics;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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