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SHOWDOWN Softcover; 1st printing - 1989

by Amado, Jorge translated by Gregory Rabassa

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In his unanimously praised novel full of sex and adventure, violence and courage, Amado has created a South American "Western" and people it with wonderfully earthy characters from his childhood.

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Bantam. G. 1989. Softcover; 1st Printing. 0553346660 . Bantam Trade Paperback. Used condition. Some water staining along outer edge of text. For the most part quite clean. Text is tight. ; 51/4x81/4; 422 pages .
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  • Title SHOWDOWN
  • Author Amado, Jorge translated by Gregory Rabassa
  • Binding Softcover; 1st Printing
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition Used - G
  • Pages 434
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bantam, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11040
  • ISBN 9780553346664 / 0553346660
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.06 x 1.11 in (22.96 x 15.39 x 2.82 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Brazil, City and town life - Brazil
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87047789
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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BEFORE ANY HOUSES EXISTED, the cemetery was dug at the foot of the hill, on the left bank of the river.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 12/02/1988, Page 0

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 Doa 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 Doa Flor was produced in Brazil in 1976. He died in 2001.

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