- Youth, Tristan (Legendary character), Adaptations, Iseult (Legendary character)
John Updike's sixteenth novel takes place in a stylized Brazil where almost anything is possible, if you are young and in love. Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach; their flight into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west.
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- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- John Updike
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 261
- Publisher
- "VAGRIUS", Distributed by Random House, Distributed by Random House, Inc.
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Portuguese, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9788571643635
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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in *The New Yorker* starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for *The New York Review of Books.* His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades,
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