Author(s): John Updike
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 272
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Date Published: 2009-02-20
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 16mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
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Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west....