Description: Franklin library leather edition of John Updike's "Brazil," a Limited edition, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, Frontispiece Portrait by Carol Fabricatore, PERSONALLY SIGNED by JOHN UPDIKE, published in 1994. Bound in brown leather, the book has marbled paper end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilt on three edge---in near FINE condition. John Hoyer Updike was born in 1932 in Pennsylvania. He graduated from HARVARD and worked for the NEW YORKER from 1955-57. "Brazil" is a 1994 novel that contains many elements of magical realism. It is a retelling of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde, the subject of many works in opera and ballet. Tristão Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio de Janeiro slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring stolen from an American tourist. Isabel marvelled at how many people she had slept so soundly among. These poor, like animals, had developed a tactful politics of space. The whole shack was no bigger than her uncle's master bedroom. . .Isabel saw her whiteness wedged between brown and black. . .as she prostitutes herself with a stranger while Tristao explodes on her face. Tristan feels "dirtied" and says "It was you who had the pleasure of being a slut. . .but she only offers to "lick his angelic body and continue as his slave." Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil’s wild west, where magic still rules. Privation, violence, captivity and poverty afflict them; his mother curses them, her father strives to separate them, and neither lover is absolutely faithful. Eventually, ancient charms change him to white and her to black. Yet Tristão and Isabel hold on to the belief that each is the other’s fate for life, as they develop in ways they never thought possible. Painting a picture of modern day Brazil, Updike casts his doomed lovers on an odyssey that takes them from the renowned beaches to swank apartments to dire slums. . . This novel is not recommended for adolescent lit! 261 pages. I offer Combined shipping.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Leather
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Franklin LIbrary SIGNED FIRST EDITION
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1994
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Carol Fabrocatore
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition, SIGNED First Edition
Region: New Hampshire
Author: John Updike
Personalized: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: Brazil
Topic: Tristan and Iseult: Romance
Character Family: Alf Clayton
