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27 de ago. de 1996 · 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.
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."
Brazil è un libro di John Updike pubblicato da Mondadori nella collana Omnibus stranieri: acquista su IBS a 8.00€!
John Updike nasceu em 1932 em Shillington, na Pensilvânia. Licenciou-se na Universidade de Harvard em 1954. Trabalhou no The New Yorker nos anos 50, onde publicou poemas, contos, ensaios e recensões.
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 ...
John Updike, como era mais conhecido, foi um romancista, poeta, contista, crítico de arte e crítico literário. Foi considerado um dos grandes romancistas contemporâneos norte-americanos, responsável por doze livros de ficção, cinco volumes de poesia e uma peça de teatro. Em 1954, formou-se na Universidade Harvard.
Brazil John Updike. Fawcett Books, $6.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-449-22313-0. Updike's Tristan-and-Isolde tale of doomed lovers from opposite ends of Brazil's social stratum was a PW bestseller.
