Showdown - Hardcover

Amado, Jorge

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ISBN 10: 0553051741 ISBN 13: 9780553051742

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1988

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Amado, Jorge. Showdown. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Toronto, London, Bantam, 1988. 24 cm. 422 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Signed by Jorge Amado ! / Excellent condition first edition with only very minor signs of external wear. Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 - 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1978. His work reflects the image of a Mesti�o Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. (Wikipedia) In his unanimously praised novel [Showdown] full of sex and adventure, violence and courage, Jorge Amado has created a South American Western and people it with wonderfully earthy characters from his childhood. (Amazon)

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Set in the Brazilian city of Tocaia Grande at the turn of the century, this novel captures the violence, ambition, greed, honor, and earthiness of a time and place in Brazil's history comparable to the legendary American West

About the Author:

Jorge Amado--novelist, journalist, lawyer--was born in 1912, the son of a cacao planter, in Ilheus, south of Salvador, the provincial capital of Gabriela, clavo y canela. His first novel, Cacao, was published when he was 19. It was an impassioned plea for social justice for the workers on Bahian cacao plantations; and his novels of the '30s and '40s would continue to dramatize class struggle. Not until the 1950s did he write his great literary comic novels--Gabriela, clavo y canela and Dona Flor y sus dos maridos--which take aim at the full spectrum of society even as they pay ebullient tribute to the region of his birth. One of the most renowned writers of the Latin American boom of the '60s, Amado has been translated into more than 35 languages. A highly successful film version of Dona Flor was produced in Brazil in 1976. He died in 2001.

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