Brazil: A Novel

ISBN: 0449911632

Author: Updike, John

Condition: New

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 YorkerThey 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