| Showdown Contributor(s): Amado, Jorge (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553346660 ISBN-13: 9780553346664 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1989 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 87047789 |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6.06" W x 9.04" (1.55 lbs) 434 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A classic Brazilian "Western" full of romance and adventure, violence and courage, and peopled with wonderfully earthy characters from the legendary author's childhood. "Set in Bahia at the turn of the century, Showdown is brimming with the gunmen, fugitives, prostitutes and other characters who settled that sunbaked northeastern state."--The New York Times " Jorge] Amado has returned to some of his earliest, most radical concerns, confronting Brazilian society, memory, and mythmaking, and aiming to show, by anecdote, how the Brazil of the modernizing present has buried its (criminal) past."--Commentary "The Brazil Amado] writes about in Showdown shares many of the traditions of the American frontier, and that is something Americans can relate to."--Linda Grey, former Bantam president and publisher "Showdown is a combination of the old Amado, who wrote Bahian historical novels, and the new Amado, with the spirit of Gabriela."--Gregory Rabassa, National Book Award-winning translator of Showdown |